A few months ago I caught myself doing something embarrassing: judging coding models by how impressive their first answer looked. I'd paste a clever prompt, watch a confident solution stream out, nod, and move on. Then, a week later, I'd actually use the model on real work and discover it could...
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/hackrs_6393/i-stopped-trusting-demo-prompts-a-repeatable-smoke-test-for-free-coding-models-cfn)