Write the Task Before the Prompt

Write the Task Before the Prompt turns a chat request into a reviewable work order. Write the Task Before the Prompt is a prompt-engineering discipline, not a wording trick. A smart professional uses it to make the model's job, evidence, constraints, and review criteria explicit before asking for output. Without that structure, the model fills gaps with generic defaults that can look polished while missing the business need. The mechanism is controlled ambiguity. The prompt changes what information is salient, what tradeoffs the model optimizes, and what the human can inspect afterward. Strong prompts reduce degrees of freedom where guessing…

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