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by simonw 13 days ago
If they try something and it doesn't work and they then try something else and it DOES work that's concrete feedback.
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Are you saying the machine can tell you what confused them?
Yes. Try a prompt like this:

> In our recent conversations were there any instances where you attempted a tool call, got an error, then adjusted your tool call and were successful? Suggest improvements to the tool instructions that would have avoided the initial error.

A year ago I don't think this would have worked. The frontier models have been trained to be able to write prompts for themselves, mainly so they can effectively use sub-agents.