Walk a bad answer through root cause
Diagnose a failed chain-of-thought answer by tracing the prompt failure to its root cause.
The wrong confident answer Chen sees the model rank a candidate as low-risk even though the actual scorecard weights technical depth twice as much as presentation polish. A bad reasoning chain needs diagnosis, not frustration. Root cause repair Symptom -> Failed step -> Prompt fix Five Whys helps you move from "bad answer" to the prompt condition that produced the bad answer. Retry No, try again The next prompt repairs the cause instead of adding annoyance. A precise repair beats a louder retry. 01 Symptom 02 Step 03 Patch Decision 1 The recommendation is wrong because the scorecard weighting is…
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