Why Your AI Prompts Break After One Edit (and the...

You spend 30 minutes crafting the perfect prompt. It works beautifully. Then you tweak one line, and the output goes sideways. Sound familiar? The problem isn't the edit. It's that you're treating prompts like scratch notes instead of versioned artifacts. The Fragility Problem Prompts are deceptively sensitive. A small wording change can shift the model's interpretation dramatically: "List the top issues" → bullet points "Describe the top issues" → paragraphs "Analyze the top issues" → a 2000-wo