The post states that models retain their dominant expressive mode far into the context window, so you must repeatedly re-prompt to enforce a new style or instruction. Ben Sehl says he will append this reminder to every AGENTS.md file going forward, and credits Richard Penner for a self-referential clarification of ASD-STE100.
The author reports that large models resist changes to their dominant mode of expression deep into the conversation context, requiring repeated re-prompting to shift style or behavior.
In my experience the models do not follow changes to their dominant mode of expression for very deep into context. You have to continually re-prompt for it
Ben Sehl (@benjaminsehl)
Adding to every AGENTS md file for the rest of time.
(h/t @richardpenner for the self-referential explanation on what ASD-STE100 is)
— https://nitter.net/benjaminsehl/status/2082158002958741746#m