The 3 Lines of Python Code That Fixed My AI Agent’s Hallucinations

The Fallacy of Prompt Engineering There is a widespread misconception in the AI engineering community that hallucinations can be solved with better words. Developers spend hours appending phrases like “Think step-by-step,” “You are a helpful expert,” “Output strictly in JSON,” and “Do not lie under any circumstances” to their system prompts. No amount of prompt engineering can completely eradicate LLM hallucinations in a production agentic system. The fundamental flaw is treating the LLM as a...