Be blunt about my plan for a chart for a skeptical audience. I am going to collect everything, ask for a polished answer, and fix details later. What is likely to go wrong?
How I ask for help with a chart for a skeptical audience
A compact prompt and the response it produced. Replace the bracketed parts with your own details.
Three things.
- “Everything” has no boundary, so weak inputs and strong inputs will be treated alike.
- A polished answer can hide missing evidence. Ask for gaps and assumptions before prose.
- “Fix details later” means there is no acceptance test now.
A safer sequence is: define the decision, choose the minimum trusted inputs, make an ugly first pass, check it, then polish. For this task, keep assumptions next to the metric.
Fair. I was using polish as proof that the reasoning was finished.
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