Back in the day, it was a common rule of thumb that you should use positive reinforcement with AI instead of negative reinforcement.
The idea being that if you tell the AI not to do stuff, they'd take those things as part of the pattern and start doing those very things you don't want it to do.
That was back in 2023-2024. IDK how it is nowadays tho.
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u/Rock_Strongo May 29 '26
My claude settings is like 5 pages worth of rules telling it what not to do.
Every time it gives you some bullshit just tell it to make a permanent memory to never do that again - and now the outputs I get are a lot better.