Stop Blaming AI Hallucinations: Your Prompts Are the Problem

The term 'AI hallucination' misleads developers into attributing model failures to architectural flaws, when they're actually rational responses to underspecified prompts. Since language models are fundamentally next-token predictors that output the most probable sequence given the input, the solution lies not in fixing the model but in crafting more precise, constraint-rich prompts. Understanding this distinction moves the responsibility—and the solution—squarely onto the user's shoulders.