AI IntelligenceAug 21, 2026Practical Tip
Article
Say It Four Times
Frontier EditorialSource: Reddit r/PromptEngineering
01
Source Brief
Say It Four Times
02
Practical Tip
An experiment on Gemini 2.5 Flash tested repeating a rule in system prompts 0 to 16 times, using 1,080 runs and six Python tasks. Compliance, checked with Python's tokenizer, was 0% when the rule was absent and improved with repetition, suggesting that repeating key instructions increases adherence.
03