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A dollar sign in my shortcut quietly broke my job scoring

One of his AI shortcuts had prices written out, like $10/hr and $1,200. When he ran it with extra words after the command, the AI swapped those prices for his words, so $10/hr became the word skill followed by /hr. No error, no warning. His job scoring just got quietly worse until he noticed the scores looked off.

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How it works

  1. Write prices into a shortcut as plain text
  2. Run the shortcut with extra words
  3. The agent swaps the prices for his words, turning $10/hr into skill/hr
  4. The job scores drift with no error shown
  5. He spots that the scores look off and finds the cause
  6. The fix is a backslash before the dollar sign

Why it’s worth knowing

A single character turned his prices into blanks for his own words, and the only alarm was his gut feeling that the scores looked off.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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