About how reliably LLMs stick to instructions such as style prompts.
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Yes 51 (39%)Not sure 37 (28%)No 42 (32%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About how reliably LLMs stick to instructions such as style prompts.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
I tried to get GPT to talk like a regular guy yesterday. It was impossible for it to maintain adherence. It kept defaulting back to markdown and bullet points, after the first message. (Funny cause it scores highest on the instruction following benchmarks.)
Might seem trivial but if it can't even do a basic style prompt... how are you supposed to trust it with anything serious?