The Prompting Gradient

The accuracy paradox post reported the headline: a Bayesian agent scoring +129.5 against an LLM agent&rsquo;s +10.8, despite lower accuracy. This post is about the LLM side of that experiment &mdash; what was tried, what helped, and where the ceiling is. The Three Variants Three LLM agents were tested on the same 50-question benchmark. They differed only in prompting: LLM Bare. The model receives…