Quick fixes AG-P009
Let it interview you first
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You know things about your problem that you don't know are relevant. One instruction turns the model from guesser into interviewer.
It answers before it knows my situation? Here's the quick fix ↓ — the why sits right below it.
Quick fix: Let it interview you first
Instead of Plan my parents' anniversary party. → generic party plan.
Try I need to plan my parents' anniversary party. Before proposing anything, ask me the five most useful questions — one at a time.
Flip who goes first.
Why this works
Half the relevant facts in your head are ones you would never think to volunteer: budget, family politics, the thing that went wrong last year. A model told to answer immediately fills those gaps with averages. A model told to interview you extracts them, and its questions are usually good, because it has seen what tends to matter for tasks like yours. "One at a time" matters: a wall of ten questions gets skimmed, a conversation gets answered.
When this applies
The task is personal or situational: an event, a decision, a plan, a document about your circumstances, and you have not already written the context down.
Template
[The task, one sentence.] Don't answer yet. Interview me first: ask the most useful questions one at a time, and propose a plan only when you have what you need.
Go deeper
This is the conversational route to the right context: instead of you guessing what to include, the model pulls it. If you find yourself giving the same interview answers repeatedly, write them down once.
Improve next
- Say what you actually want
Tell the AI what outcome you actually want.
- It only knows what you paste
Paste the thing you are asking about — it cannot see it otherwise.
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