One question to ask your agent after every session: 'which assumption, if wrong, changes your answer most?'
andrew_n_carr · x · 2026-09-13
Andrew Carr shares a practical prompting habit for agentic workflows: after every working session with your agents, ask 'What assumption did you make that, if wrong, would change your answer the most?' It surfaces the weakest hidden premise in the agent's reasoning for targeted human review.
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