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The speaker says agents left to modify prompts autonomously may turn each small fix into the entire prompt and fail to generalize that fix into a reusable prompt.

Aman Singh · Using Agents for Long-Horizon Financial Work — Aman Singh, Arca · 31 Oct 2026

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“Um, I've noticed that, uh, that agents will, will make really nasty prompt changes if you leave them, leave them to it. Um-”
“... every little fix becomes the whole prompt.”
“Uh, and they're, they're unable to stay meta and kind of generalize, uh, the fix into, into a prompt that generalizes.”
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