AI Coding Tip 040 - Ask the AI to List Where Your Prompts and Skills Contradict Each Other
When your rules disagree, the AI breaks the tie.
TL;DR: Ask the AI to list where your prompts, skills, and decisions contradict each other before it invents a tie-breaker.
Common Mistake ❌
You work with the AI for hours, days, then weeks with the console open on fire.
You write prompts, add agents, instructions, memories, and pile up skills.
Along the way you learn the domain and take decisions.
You discover the requirements as you go as humans do.
Your AI follows each new instruction and never mentions the contradictory old ones.
Nothing in the context marks which instruction replaces which.
You never read the whole pile as a big-picture document.
So you ask for the next feature, and the AI reads two instructions that disagree.
It doesn't stop to ask you.
It picks one and keeps going with total confidence.
Problems Addressed 😔
- Two or three instructions disagree,...
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