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Does This Prompt Work?

Does This Prompt Work?

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Tests one popular LLM prompting trick a week against the actual research, separating what measurably works from folklore like "you are an expert."

Does This Prompt Work?
Does This Prompt Work?
2026-06-15

"You Are an Expert" Doesn't Actually Help

The most common prompting boilerplate in every LLM guide -- "you are a world-class expert" -- produces no reliable accuracy improvement on the major models tested in 2025. This issue explains why the intuition fails, what the evidence actually shows, and what to do instead.

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