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Principles, not repeated prompts

Stable principles guide thousands of decisions without prescribing each one.

Principles, not repeated prompts

A prompt governs one interaction. A principle governs a system.

Flaey uses a small number of durable principles to tell AI what good means. These principles constrain the outcome without dictating the implementation.

This reduces the search space, removes contradictory options and preserves coherence. At the same time, AI remains free to find solutions that were never specified by the human direction.

In Pagayo, Order First, One Business Truth, One Stack and Make It Stupid Simple influence decisions across product, UX and architecture. They do not describe every answer. They provide the basis on which answers can be judged.