Make ChatGPT Predict Its Own Failure Modes Before It Starts
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Jun 22, 2026
Make ChatGPT Predict Its Own Failure Modes Before It Starts A prompt that makes ChatGPT or Claude forecast its own likely failure modes on a task before running it, so you can patch gaps in your instructions upfront instead of debugging a flawed output afterward.
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Before you do the task I'm about to give you, do this first. Predict how you're most likely to fail at it. Give me the top five ways this goes wrong: where you'll probably misunderstand me, what you'll likely assume that I didn't say, where you tend to get generic or hedge, and what part of this is genuinely hard for a model like you. For each failure, tell me the one instruction I could add that would prevent it. Then wait. Don't do the task until I've responded.
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