Quick fixes AG-P008
Make it argue the other side
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A model agrees with your framing by default. Asking for the strongest case against is the cheapest second opinion you will ever get.
AI agrees with everything I say? Here's the quick fix ↓ — the why sits right below it.
Quick fix: Make it argue the other side
Instead of Here's my plan — refine it.
Try Here's my plan. Before refining anything: give the strongest case against it, and the conditions under which it fails.
One extra sentence, asked before you commit rather than after.
Why this works
Models follow the asker's frame. Present a plan for refinement and you get refinement, including of ideas that deserved rejection. Asking for the counter-case flips the frame, and the shape of what comes back is informative even where you cannot judge the content: a solid position attracts a specific, narrow rebuttal; a shaky one gets vague hedging, because there is no real structure to attack. This works on your own drafts, the model's answers, and other people's proposals alike.
When this applies
Right before a decision hardens: sending the plan, signing off the design, accepting the recommendation. The critique is cheap now and expensive after.
Template
Steelman the case against [this]. Under what conditions does it fail? What would someone who disagrees say is my blind spot?
Go deeper
Reading rebuttal shape as a signal comes from verifying what you cannot judge. Note the failure mode in reverse: the model conceding when you push back is the same compliance, not new evidence.
Improve next
- Ask for three options, not one answer
Ask for two or three options before committing to the first.
- Check it before you act on it
Worth verifying before relying on this.
- Ask what it assumed
Ask what the answer assumed about your situation.
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