Handwriting prompts before Claude takes over: one researcher's anti-scope-creep trick
rishabh16_ · x · 2026-10-06
Following his thread on agent-driven scope creep in research, rishabh16 shares his practice: handwrite the initial prompt before typing it to Claude, to see how much of the problem, RQs and experiment setup he can define himself. He asks others for more ways to prevent accidental scope-widening.
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