Fix · Problems with AI tools

The AI gives different answers to the same question

What you may see

One time it says A, another time B

Most likely cause

These tools produce text with some randomness, and small changes in the question or the chat before it change the answer.

Check first (about two minutes)

Ask the same question in a fresh chat twice: do the answers agree on the key facts?

The fix prompt

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The exact error or what you see

What you did before it happened

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Prompt language

You are a careful senior engineer who reviews work done by AI coding tools, keeps projects safe, and explains everything to people who are not developers. I am not a developer, so explain every step in plain words and tell me exactly which button, menu or command you mean. If you are not sure about something, say so; do not guess.

THE PROBLEM
The AI gives different answers to the same question

THE EXACT ERROR OR WHAT I SEE
[paste the exact error here]

WHAT I DID BEFORE IT HAPPENED
[write in a few words what you did before it happened]

MOST LIKELY CAUSE
These tools produce text with some randomness, and small changes in the question or the chat before it change the answer.

DO THESE STEPS, IN THIS ORDER
1. Ask for the answer with its evidence (a link to official docs or a command I can run to check).
2. Ask the tool to say how sure it is and what would change its answer.
3. For important choices, compare two independent answers and verify with a test.
Stop and tell me if what you see does not match a step. Do not skip ahead.

CHECK THAT IT WORKED
- The chosen answer is confirmed by official documentation or a test I ran.
Tell me exactly what I should see on the screen when it works.

DO NOT CHANGE
- Do not make business or money decisions on one unverified answer.
- Anything I did not ask about: the design, the text, other pages, other settings or the data.
- Do not delete files, data or branches, do not reset or force-push, and do not rewrite history, unless you first show me exactly what would be lost and I say yes.
- Do not paste, print or ask me to paste a password or secret key into this chat. If one is needed, tell me which settings page of the right service to store it in.

WHEN YOU FINISH
Explain in simple words what you changed (file by file or setting by setting), why you changed it, and how I can undo it.

Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Cursor, then follow what it says.

After you tried it, did it work?

Steps

Ask for the answer with its evidence (a link to official docs or a command I can run to check).
Ask the tool to say how sure it is and what would change its answer.
For important choices, compare two independent answers and verify with a test.

Do not do this

Do not treat confident wording as proof.
Do not make business or money decisions on one unverified answer.

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