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Don’t Walk to the Car Wash: Why Prompt Architecture Beats More Context

Car wash. That is not usually where enterprise AI strategy goes to become interesting. Yet a small question about whether one should walk or drive to a nearby car wash exposes a very real failure mode in LLM systems: the model optimizes the visible variable and misses the actual task. The question is simple: ...

February 26, 2026 · 14 min · Zelina