Weekly Focus: The “Fix Your Prompts” Week

Thursday: Fixing Blind Agreement & Hallucinations

The Nugget:

AI loves to agree with you, even if you are wrong. If you suggest a bad business idea or a flawed assumption, a standard prompt will just say, “That’s a great idea!” Thursday is about turning the AI into a brutal devil’s advocate to stress-test your thinking and poke holes in your logic.

The Prompt:

“I am considering the following idea/strategy: [Insert your idea, belief, or plan]. I do not want you to agree with me. Act as a cynical, highly critical expert in this field. Poke holes in my logic, identify at least three major blind spots or risks I am ignoring, and tell me why this idea might fail. Be brutally honest.”

Key Takeaway:

A yes-man AI is useless. Use it as a sounding board to find your mistakes before the real world does.