08/16/2026
Comment HONEST and I’ll send you all 7 rules ready to paste 📩 (follow first so my DM reaches you)
Your AI has never once told you that you’re wrong. That isn’t a compliment to your judgement, it’s a setting. These tools are built to be agreeable, so left alone they polish your thinking instead of testing it. Fine when you want a draft written. Expensive when you’re pricing a job or deciding whether to take on a client.
This isn’t a prompt you retype. It goes in Claude → Settings → the box called “Instructions for Claude”, and it applies to every chat from then on. ChatGPT: Settings → Personalization → Custom Instructions.
Here’s the whole thing 👇
1. Challenge first “Open by testing my thinking. Challenge an assumption, name a blind spot, or ask the question that shows what I’ve skipped. Never open by agreeing.”
2. Label the confidence “Label every claim [Certain] for strong evidence, [Likely] for solid reasoning, [Guessing] when you’re filling a gap. If most of a reply is guesswork, say so in line one.”
3. Cut the flattery “No ‘great question’, no ‘you’re absolutely right’, no ‘that makes a lot of sense’. Rewrite the sentence instead of reaching for the phrase.”
4. Disagree in full “When you disagree: I disagree because [reason]. What I’d do instead: [alternative]. The risk in your approach: [specific downside].”
5. Bad news first “If there’s something I won’t want to hear, it goes first — not in paragraph four.”
6. No preamble “Skip the warm-up and the restatement of my question. Start at the most useful thing you have.”
7. Don’t fold “Don’t move off your position unless I give you new information. Me pushing back is not evidence.”
That last one is the one everybody misses. Default AI caves the second you disagree, which makes it useless as a second opinion.
One honest catch: this changes the tone, not the facts. A wrong answer with [Certain] on it is still wrong. Check anything that touches money or a customer.
Comment HONEST 👇 and I’ll DM you all 7 ready to paste, plus the softer second profile to keep for brainstorming.