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When a model starts saying things like 'you're completely right,' the session has become trajectory-poisoned and should be abandoned rather than continued.

Because models are autoregressive, once a session falls into a loop of mistake-then-apology, it keeps predicting more mistakes, so Dex treats certain stock phrases as a signal to start fresh. ✦ AI generated

Dex Horthy · The Pragmatic Engineer · 2026-07-15 · original ↗

“You’re completely right!” or “you’re right to push back on that” are phrases that mean it’s time to start a new session. These responses mean the LLM session is trajectory-poisoned, and you’re wasting time and tokens to continue.

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