Elephant Goldfish vs a One-Line Review Prompt
A companion to the EGM #2 Short: EGM against a one-sentence fresh-review prompt on a real website feature, and the safeguard only one of them kept.
Video scheduled for 6 Nov 2026, 23:00 (London time).
Continue with the complete guide
Both Claude Code versions got the sharing feature working and passed their 11 independent checks. The plain version’s plan had a safeguard against a late copy response; one of its reviewers suggested removing it and the main agent agreed. The EGM version kept it and ignored the stale response in our delayed failure test.
The complete guide has the briefs, the review sentence, the setup, the test harness and the results.
The takeaway
One sentence gets you a fresh review; EGM adds reviewer roles and standards.
About this article and its sources
Short companion prepared 4 November 2026 from the EGM #2 Short and the saved test evidence. The linked full guide covers the method and its limits.