# kaal:claim:6244278-007

**Claim.** In genuinely poorly defined contexts, where the task includes choosing what merits attention and committing resources under irreducible uncertainty, no scaffold can be pre-specified without collapsing the problem into a defined one; prompting therefore cannot close the judgment gap.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- task itself includes selecting what merits attention and living with irreversible consequences

**Source quote.**

> no equivalent scaffold can be pre-specified without collapsing the problem into a defined one.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *AI's Mother's Instinct Engineered Consequence Emergent Ethics and the Institutional Trajectory Toward Agentic Alignment* (2026), III. The Prompt Engineering Paradox, page 6

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, AI's Mother's Instinct Engineered Consequence Emergent Ethics and the Institutional Trajectory Toward Agentic Alignment (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6244278

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**Failure mode.** scaffold collapse  (family: human-judgment-displacement)

**Topics.** institutional-design

**Keywords.** prompt-engineering, poorly-defined-work, scaffolding, uncertainty

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