Quick fixes AG-P001
Say what you actually want
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"Make me a plan" produces the average plan for the average person. Name the outcome, and the answer starts being about your situation.
AI gives me generic answers? Here's the quick fix ↓ — the why sits right below it.
Quick fix: Say what you actually want
Instead of Make me a plan.
Try Make me a 3-day plan for moving my studio, assuming I work Tuesday and Wednesday and have a van only on Thursday.
Name the outcome, the constraints you already know, and what done looks like.
Why this works
The model cannot read your mind, so a vague request gets the most statistically average answer — a generic plan, for a generic person, in a generic situation. Everything specific you add narrows the answer toward your actual case. You always knew the specifics; the step people skip is saying them out loud.
Example
Instead of Write something for the newsletter.
Try Write 150 words for our club newsletter announcing the June tournament: date, that beginners are welcome, and that sign-up closes May 20. Friendly, no exclamation marks.
Template
I want [the concrete outcome]. It is for [who will use it / where it goes]. It must [constraints you already know]. Done looks like [how you will judge it].
Go deeper
The full version of this idea is giving it the right context — what to include, and the cost of including too much. If your request is specific but the quality bar is not, that is its own pattern. And prompts that survive a long task shows the durable version, for requests you will make more than once.
Improve next
- It only knows what you paste
Paste the thing you are asking about — it cannot see it otherwise.
- Tell it what "better" means
Tell the AI what "better" means for this text.
- One request, five tasks
This may work better as several steps.
Something wrong with this page?
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.