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No reliable lightweight method to evaluate whether AI prompt tweaks actually improve outcomes

Developers modifying AI prompts or workflows rely on intuition rather than systematic evaluation, making it hard to know if changes genuinely improve performance. The lack of simple evaluation frameworks causes regressions to go undetected. A growing problem as AI-assisted workflows become standard in software development.

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