Instruction coverage.

Ahead of schools reopening, Madurai City Police give slew of instructions to ensure safety of students

Madurai City Police issue safety guidelines for parents and schools ahead of reopening, ensuring student security during commutes.…

Your CLAUDE.md Rules Are Probabilistic: Why Claude Quietly Deprioritizes Some Instructions

The Problem Nobody Warns You About You wrote the rule clearly. You put it in your...…

Bridging Auxiliary Constraints to Resolve Instruction Following in Large Reasoning Models

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in many tasks, yet they struggle with reliably following multiple instructions, either by failing to satisfy…

Open source project contains hidden instruction for "AI" agents: delete my code

Current favorite side activity with chatgpt is giving it relatively vague instructions to generate book scenes.

Analysis Of Anthropic Claude System-Prompt Instruction That Shapes The Handling Of AI Mental Health Chats

Anthropic Claude provides open access to their system-wide prompt. I analyze the portions dealing with AI mental health guidance. An AI Insider analysis and scoop.…

Multiple Byte Processing with Full-Word Instructions (1975)

My algorithms for parallelizing loops, described in papers starting with [9], were rather inefficient. They could be sped up with parallel execution on an array processor like the …

Wave – A universal GPU instruction set architecture

WAVE (Wide Architecture Virtual Encoding) - The universal GPU ISA. Write GPU kernels once, run on Apple, NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel GPUs. Includes compiler, four backends, emulator, an…

If it compiles, it doesn't work: STATUS_ILLEGAL_INSTRUCTION on Windows 11

6502 Emulator Runs 1 Instruction/S (Written in Markdown, Running in an LLM)

In previous posts we explored what happens if we treat LLMs as processors that run Markdown as their machine code: a user-space IP stack written in Markdown and a BASIC interpreter…

As X, Do Y: How Persona and Task Combine in Instruction-Tuned LLMs

Role prompts of the form As X, do Y admit a clean linear decomposition at one specific site in the residual stream: the prompt-to-answer transition -- the last prompt token togethe…

PoisonForge: Task-Level Targeted Poisoning Benchmark for Instruction-Tuned LLMs

When practitioners fine-tune LLMs on unvetted datasets, an adversary can exploit the data supply chain through task-level poisoning: inserting a small number of crafted instruction…

Understanding and Improving Noisy Embedding Techniques in Instruction Finetuning

Recent advancements in instructional fine-tuning have injected noise into embeddings, with NEFTune (Jain et al., 2024) setting benchmarks using uniform noise. Despite NEFTune's emp…

My prompts got 3x better the day I stopped writing more instructions and started writing more examples instead

Golf instruction: Do you have a pre-shot routine?

Averee Dovsek explains the importance of a pre-shot routine and why all good players have one.…

ChatGPT 5.5 Custom instructions & More about you

Coding-Agent Instruction Design: The CLAUDE.md File That Prevents Rework

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The 'Instructional Hierarchy' Protocol.

Do as I Say, Not as I Do: Instruction-Induction Conflict in LLMs

Language models are trained to follow instructions, but they are also powerful pattern completers. What happens when these two objectives conflict? We construct conversations in wh…

DISC: Decoupling Instruction from State-Conditioned Control via Policy Generation

Language-conditioned manipulation policies typically process instructions and observations through shared network parameters. This task-state entanglement provides a pathway for ob…

MacOS EDR / Defender for Endpoint Deployment - mixed instructions and GUI leading me in the wrong direction

Instruction: how to create a website (HTML file, webpage, or HTML document)

To create an HTML page and view it, we will use your pre-installed programs, such as a text editor...…

Claude Skills vs Cursor Rules vs Copilot Instructions: How Real Teams Set AI Coding Standards in 2026

Every AI coding tool now reads a config file. CLAUDE.md, .cursorrules, copilot-instructions.md, AGENTS.md, GEMINI.md. Most teams have three or four of them, written by different pe…

Instructions for (ICML) workshop reviews [D]

Compositional Literary Primitives in Instruction-Tuned LLMs: Cross-Architectural SAE Features for Self, Style, and Affect

We characterize a compositional architecture of literary primitives in two instruction-tuned large language models (Llama 3.1 8B-Instruct and Gemma 2 9B-IT) via sparse autoencoders…

Context improves AI coding agent instruction-following by 49% (GitHub and paper)

Benchmark test repo: Next.js project with intentional product-context gotchas for AI agent evaluation - brief-hq/dcbench…

Instruction systems capability ladder: harness leveling

submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge A few months ago I drew a maturity ladder for CLAUDE.md...…

Cursor releases Composer 2.5, saying it's better at sustained work on long-running tasks and follows complex instructions more reliably; it's built on Kimi K2.5 (Cursor)

Tuning-free Instruction-based Video Editing Via Structural Noise Initialization and Guidance

Video editing poses a significant challenge. While a series of tuning-free methods circumvent the need for extensive data collection and model training, they often underutilize the…

GitHub Copilot Prompts vs Skills vs Instructions: What's the Difference and When to Use Each

You've been using GitHub Copilot for a while. It's great out of the box, but you keep catching...…

What if an instruction became open-source?

Golf instruction: 3 simple tips to hit bombs with your driver

Professional Long Driver Averee Dovsek shares three simple steps to help golfers hit longer, more powerful drives.…

‘Never Talk About Goblins’: OpenAI’s Instructions to Codex Have a Weirdly Emphatic No-Creatures Policy

Goblins are expressly forbidden, along with gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, and pigeons.…