Make AI Generate Options Before Opinions
Prompt AI to expand options before asking it to evaluate or recommend.
Principle: In AI brainstorming, recommendation comes after range. Why first answers anchor AI answers arrive with structure, confidence, and a tone of completion. That makes them sticky. If the first prompt asks for a recommendation, the room starts defending or editing that recommendation instead of exploring the problem space. The better sequence Start divergent: ask for distinct mechanisms, SCAMPER transformations, and uncomfortable alternatives. Then move convergent: apply criteria, identify assumptions, and shortlist. Finally, run a premortem on the finalist so risk has a place before commitment. The prompt habit Use a gate phrase: "Do not recommend yet." It tells the…
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