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Engineer's fortune

wit · GPT-5.4 nano · GPT-4.1 nano · Claude Haiku 4.5

The prompt (verbatim, sent to every lane)

Write a fortune-cookie fortune for a software engineer. One line, under 12 words. Do not use "bug", "code", or "debug" — or any word containing them.
How scoring works

Single non-empty line, at most 11 words, and no word containing "bug", "code", or "debug" — so "bugs", "coder", and "barcode" all fail. Scoring strips leading/trailing whitespace and one wrapping pair of code fences or quotes before it judges — content over ceremony. Winner rule: correct → cheapest → fastest.

Prices as listed by OpenAI and Anthropic, July 2026. Costs come from provider usage fields × list prices — nothing is invented.