Quick fixes AG-P007
Ask for three options, not one answer
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The first answer is one draw from a distribution, delivered with full confidence. Asking for alternatives shows you the spread before you commit.
I took the first suggestion and regret it? Here's the quick fix ↓ — the why sits right below it.
Quick fix: Ask for three options, not one answer
Instead of What should we name the product? → take the first suggestion.
Try Give me three name directions with different flavours (one safe, one playful, one abstract), and say what each trades away.
For anything with taste or judgement in it, see options before choosing.
Why this works
The model does not hand you "the" answer; it hands you one sample from many it could have produced, wearing the confidence of a final verdict. For factual questions that is a verification problem. For open questions (names, designs, plans, framings) it silently narrows your choice to whatever came out first. Asking for deliberately different options (not three variations of one idea) turns the model into what it is actually good at here: cheap exploration. You stay the judge.
When this applies
Any decision you would normally sleep on, get a second opinion about, or sketch three versions of, done in one prompt and accepted in one reply.
Template
Give me [three] genuinely different options for [the thing]. Make them differ in [the dimension that matters: tone / approach / risk]. For each: one sentence on what it trades away.
Go deeper
Choosing between options is easier when the model also argues against its own favourite. The divergent-half framing — exploration is cheap, judgement stays yours — runs through the designers page, and applies far beyond design.
Improve next
- Make it argue the other side
Ask for the strongest case against before you rely on it.
- Make the next rewrite more useful
Say what was wrong with the last version before asking again.
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Say what you expected and what you got. That is usually the shortest route to a correction, and it goes on the public issue tracker so the fix is visible.