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AI model families: instruction-following styles you'll feel
Some families take instructions literally. Others read past them. Same prompt, different family, different result — learn the dialect.
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- 1The premise
- 2instruction following
- 3model dialects
- 4prompt portability
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Section 1
The premise
Each model family has a tendency: some over-comply, some interpret loosely, some ignore middle-of-prompt rules. Prompts that work great on one family can fail on another even when both are 'good models.'
What AI does well here
- Follow instructions reliably within their family's style
- Improve when prompted in their family's preferred phrasing
- Show consistent behavior at temperature 0 within a family
What AI cannot do
- Behave identically across families on the same prompt
- Translate prompts written for one family to another without testing
- Preserve subtle behaviors across model upgrades automatically
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