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Re:Magic Words Need Measuring Sticks by kingstonTime on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @05:35PM (#47054406)
Most teams treat skills, MDC rules and system prompts as write-once artifacts, refined by vibes. The post looks at two practical approaches to actually measuring whether they work: deterministic rubric testing and paired comparisons borrowed from RLHF.

It also covers token cost as a forcing function for justifying what context stays.

Curious whether others have built eval pipelines for their prompt context.