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minimaxirtoday at 7:03 PM2 repliesview on HN

> just repeatedly saying "keep going" to ChatGPT

For posterity, this indeed works for most problems where an agent might give up. LLMs don't inherently know something is impossible.

The phrase I tend to use in my harder prompts to automate this with a sane loop breaker:

> **REPEAT THIS PROCESS UNTIL CONVERGENCE AND YOU ARE OUT OF OPTIMIZATION IDEAS.** You have permission to keep iterating.


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markfsharptoday at 8:09 PM

What I am thinking is the way you make it 'keep going' and when you have people of the calibre of Tao doing it I kept thinking how many breakthroughs is he going to cause the LLM to find with his targetted questions :D Amazing that we have the privilege of witnessing a true expert in such a way question the LLM.

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MikhailTaltoday at 8:16 PM

this is /goal in claude code/codex. also basically a slightly improved ralph loop