The Scaffolding Tax: Why Less Prompt Beats More (2026)
Two frontier labs and two research papers reached the same conclusion by 2026: the AI instructions you wrote to improve output are now quietly making it worse.
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Two frontier labs and two research papers reached the same conclusion by 2026: the AI instructions you wrote to improve output are now quietly making it worse.
A new method for surgically removing training examples from a model reveals that as datasets grow, the link between what a model learns and what it produces dissolves.
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