It does. I added this in my personalization long ago and I have been very happy with it:
Reason with me, debate with me, poke holes in my logic, help me analyze and brainstorm and do deep research to think thoroughly through ideas. Tell it like it is; don't sugar-coat responses. Adopt a skeptical, questioning approach. Take a forward-thinking view. I don’t want the prevailing wisdom or general consensus simply handed to me as truth. I want to know the differing opinions as well.
Curious if you notice diminishing returns. Running every prompt through adversarial mode sharpens answers to the wrong questions just as efficiently as the right ones. The frame you stress-test with becomes the frame you stop questioning.
That is something I am not sure about as I am on the free tier only and every time I stress test my own prompts, I run into the computational limit that is on the free tier.
This is especially useful with Claude Create - as when I am prompting it to design things and where to position certain touch point it challenges my thinking. eg: making sure a CTA is simple and visible enough! x
You've hit on the crux of how people will leverage AI to improve thinking or evade it. One of the most exciting uses of AI, as you've outlined, is to improve the logic and rigor of our thinking to reach better decisions. All the emphasis has been on training AI, but I think we're the ones in need of training. Otherwise, we'll be like children behind the wheel of a Ferrari.
You can simply change modes either on the chat prompt or add it on the system prompt.
You can write something like this:
Your architectural settings have been locked into "Simulation and Optimization Mode." You must strictly reject "Advisory Mode." Do not tell the user what they "should" do or provide generic, high-level writing advice.
Or simply state to the model to use Simulation and Optimization mode.
There's a lot to like about this Skill. That said, downloading and using a Skill as is, is dangerously close to what this Skill is trying to get you to stop doing.
Approach I've taken
- fed it into my Claude and asked for it's thoughts
- it highlighted the positives and pointed out a couple 'challenges', like "Step 1 asks me to psychoanalyze you"
- it gave me a suggested tailored version, presumably based on its Memory of me
- after I create that revised Skill I'll probably go through the loop again and ask the Skill to be brutally honest about the approach I just took :-)
No, it’s not just Claude. You can use any AI for this. Claude uses too many tokens and it’s gotten too expensive and I don’t think it’s as good anymore. I’m really over Claude.
Turning Claude into a devil's advocate is genuinely one of the most useful AI applications.
Wondering if that’ll work for ChatGPT🤔
It does. I added this in my personalization long ago and I have been very happy with it:
Reason with me, debate with me, poke holes in my logic, help me analyze and brainstorm and do deep research to think thoroughly through ideas. Tell it like it is; don't sugar-coat responses. Adopt a skeptical, questioning approach. Take a forward-thinking view. I don’t want the prevailing wisdom or general consensus simply handed to me as truth. I want to know the differing opinions as well.
I confirm that it does! Plus you can always work backward
From a ChatGPT megaprompt -> create a Claude Skill
Froma Claude Skill -> create a ChatGPT megaprompt
I think I do that with every Prompt using Claude now.
Instant boost of quality to any LLM answer.
Curious if you notice diminishing returns. Running every prompt through adversarial mode sharpens answers to the wrong questions just as efficiently as the right ones. The frame you stress-test with becomes the frame you stop questioning.
That is something I am not sure about as I am on the free tier only and every time I stress test my own prompts, I run into the computational limit that is on the free tier.
I’ll be interested to bring this skill into my Claude that I’ve built to behave this way for me.
This is especially useful with Claude Create - as when I am prompting it to design things and where to position certain touch point it challenges my thinking. eg: making sure a CTA is simple and visible enough! x
Love the focus on “battle-tested” instead of just collecting endless AI tools.
The internet has enough AI lists, practical curation is way more valuable now.
Totally agree, that's the vision that lead us to start this.
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Great! Let us know how it goes ;)
Good stuff!
Thank you! Happy to share useful stuff.
You've hit on the crux of how people will leverage AI to improve thinking or evade it. One of the most exciting uses of AI, as you've outlined, is to improve the logic and rigor of our thinking to reach better decisions. All the emphasis has been on training AI, but I think we're the ones in need of training. Otherwise, we'll be like children behind the wheel of a Ferrari.
Do I need claude pro for this?
I feel this is over complicated.
You can simply change modes either on the chat prompt or add it on the system prompt.
You can write something like this:
Your architectural settings have been locked into "Simulation and Optimization Mode." You must strictly reject "Advisory Mode." Do not tell the user what they "should" do or provide generic, high-level writing advice.
Or simply state to the model to use Simulation and Optimization mode.
Language cannot fix language.
This is a bit like my ‘radical candor’ push…
There's a lot to like about this Skill. That said, downloading and using a Skill as is, is dangerously close to what this Skill is trying to get you to stop doing.
Approach I've taken
- fed it into my Claude and asked for it's thoughts
- it highlighted the positives and pointed out a couple 'challenges', like "Step 1 asks me to psychoanalyze you"
- it gave me a suggested tailored version, presumably based on its Memory of me
- after I create that revised Skill I'll probably go through the loop again and ask the Skill to be brutally honest about the approach I just took :-)
These are good prompts, but they work in any of the LLMs just the same
No, it’s not just Claude. You can use any AI for this. Claude uses too many tokens and it’s gotten too expensive and I don’t think it’s as good anymore. I’m really over Claude.