A neat prompt to make your agent expose its hidden assumptions about you
keyanzhang · x · 2026-11-12
keyanzhang shares a simple trick: after a long agent thread, send "can you spell out your assumptions about what I want and what I want to want" to surface the hidden assumptions the agent has accumulated about your goals, making misalignments easy to spot and correct.
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