Overprompting
Domain: Prompt Engineering
🎯 Motivation
Adding too many constraints, examples, and instructions can actually make the model worse - it gets confused by conflicting or excessive demands.
📋 Concrete Example
Bad: 50 examples, 20 constraints, 5 roles, 3 format requirements, 10 negative prompts. The model can’t satisfy everything and may produce worse output than a simpler prompt.
🔗 Analogy
Overcoaching an athlete - if you give 20 instructions at once (‘keep your elbow up, bend your knees, watch the ball, breathe, rotate, follow through…’), they freeze. Too many instructions paralyze. Same with LLMs.