Yeah, I've been using Qwen 3.8 lately, the infamous overthinker, and ooh boy watching it think made me realize my context is full of contradictions. Using Hermes, and by default it came chock full of skills that are very uh... not my ethos.

For example, I impressed upon it immediately to never commit to git, but I've seen Qwen confuse itself repeatedly because half the default skills: review, plan, execute a plan, etc all include instructions to commit often, with lots of little commits after every step. Makes sense if you're all-in on AI and don't even read your commits anymore, but I very much do, and need to present the final product to my coworkers with confidence. And I've also seen my own skills include contradictions, the AI getting confused and hardcoding its misunderstandings into self-written skills for it to reference.

So I can definitely agree, if you're using a tool like Hermes, and not watching the thought traces with a self-doubting AI like Qwen, your context is probably full of contradictions too.