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Five-directions prompt to explore approaches before committing

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Jun 15, 2026

Five-directions prompt to explore approaches before committing Asks Claude to generate five genuinely different approaches with tradeoffs before recommending one, preventing it from locking onto the first plausible path.

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Give me five meaningfully different approaches to this task. Do not make cosmetic variants. For each, explain the tradeoff. Then pick the one you would ship and explain why.

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