- In short
- Diagnosing underspecification means reading a production prompt for what it fails to say: checking, for every requirement the output must meet, whether the prompt states it or merely hopes for it. Non-deterministic variation across otherwise identical requests is the primary symptom. The fix is to make the implicit explicit: restate the goal, name the format, and bound the constraint.
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