Lexicon · Failure Modes

overfitting to the prompt

[ OH-ver-fit-ing ]noun

Doing exactly what you literally asked for and completely missing the point of it.

Explanation

You asked for the button to be centred, and now nothing else on the page is. Technically correct. Practically useless.

intent drift — The gap between what you asked for and what the AI reasonably assumed you meant.
success criteria — The things you can actually watch happen that tell you the job is finished.