Prompt that makes ChatGPT predict how it will fail before it starts
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Jul 14, 2026
Prompt that makes ChatGPT predict how it will fail before it starts Has the model forecast its own failure modes on your task before running it, so you can patch the gaps in your instructions upfront instead of debugging a bad result 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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