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Research2026-08-13 · source-backed
arXiv 2608.11513 operationalized eight influence tactics from organizational psychology into prompt templates and tested them on five open-weight models across two code benchmarks, scoring correctness, quality, maintainability, and security. Framings emphasizing urgency or time pressure were associated with reduced correctness and security. Accepted to Empirical Software Engineering 2026. Go delete "this is critical" and "we need this urgently" from your system prompts.
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