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The #1 tip I teach is to make extensive use of the teeny-tiny mostly hidden “edit” button in ChatGPT and Claude. When you get a bad response, stop and edit to get a better one, rather than letting crap start to multiply crap.

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Hear hear! Basically if the first reply isn't good/didnt understand/got something wrong, restart from the beginning with a better prompt, explaining more/better. Rinse and repeat.

You can do even better by asking it to ask clarifying questions before generating anything, then editing your initial prompt with those clarifications.

It is also a great way to branch conversations from some shared “initial context”.

They really need to make that edit feature much more prominent. It is such an important way to interact with the model.

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