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Comment by __mharrison__ | Hacker News Reader

If there was ever a "magic prompt" this one comes close:

    Brainstorm N ways to do X. Sort by probability.

Rather than your AI giving you the average response, it tends to sample wider from the input space. Then I can decide which one to go with (or choose something else).

Don't outsource all of your thinking.

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I've found this surprisingly effective. Higher "thinking levels" may result in more than one approach being considered, but you can also tell your LLM to do brainstorming explicitly: https://photostructure.com/coding/claude-code-replan/

I've found this to be useful, but it still requires the user to have the capability to understand/evaluate the options.

If you have a competent user it can be quite powerful

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