Hamel Husain highlights random-string diversity seed as a standout prompt trick
HamelHusain · x · 2026-09-05
Hamel Husain calls out the best trick from a recent article with Lenny and Anshu: a "diversity seed" in large design prompts — generate a long random alphanumeric string via a shell script and drop it into the prompt. He was amazed it works and says it's the most actionable advice he's seen, a technique rarely covered elsewhere. The idea: randomness breaks the model's tendency to converge on the same output each run.
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