Most people prompt AI for answers.

These 7 prompts make it question itself:

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✦ Chain-of-Doubt

Walk me through your reasoning step by step. After each step, ask yourself: could this be wrong? If yes, say why.

✦ Failure Audit

Complete this task, then list every assumption you made that could be wrong. Rate each 1-10 on confidence.

✦ Anti-Expert

Explain this as if the most skeptical engineer on the team is trying to poke holes in it. What would they say?

✦ Edge Case Stress Test

Give me 10 inputs that would break this function. For each one, show exactly how and why it fails.

✦ Constraint Flip

Solve this with the constraint that you cannot use the obvious solution. What's the second-best approach?

✦ Role Collision

Answer this as a senior systems engineer AND a skeptical product manager at the same time. Show where they'd disagree.

✦ Silent Assumption Extractor

Before answering, list every implicit assumption baked into my question. Then answer.

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