Imran Khan

@EhThing

AI Research Engineer at YC Startup. I discovered that better prompts can make smarter AI worse. Fascinated by emergent behaviors in LLMs.

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Imran Khan
@EhThing
Oct 28, 2025
Is complex prompt engineering a trap for advanced AI models? 🤯 My new paper finds that the "best" prompts for a model like GPT-4o actually HARM the performance of GPT-5. I call this the "Prompting Inversion" effect. Here’s what I discovered 👇
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Imran Khan
@EhThing
Apr 24
my boss literally assigns me tasks like he is prompting claude.
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Imran Khan
@EhThing
Apr 19
Can you steer an oil tanker out of the Hormuz blockades? I made this simulator for oil tankers stranded in Hormuz. Quite Fun. I am already addicted. Link Below 👇🏻
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Imran Khan
@EhThing
Mar 25
My dear Claude is down today. Pls leave a msg to lift his spirits 🙏
Imran Khan
@EhThing
Mar 21
Every AI slop post on socials: - This is not X, this is Y - it's not X, it's Y - this does not X, this does Y - it's not about X, it's about Y