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Your AI Gives You The Worst Answer On This Graph, Every Single Time.

Free guide: the repeatable pass that turns a nine phase answer into three steps, by making every piece of complexity name the exact thing that breaks without it.

  • The repo and the one line install
  • Why every AI answer lands in the worst part of the bell curve
  • The rule that works when asking for 'simpler' does not
  • The 26 words that mean your AI is stalling instead of thinking
  • The paste-in prompt that runs the whole pass on any question

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The repeatable pass that makes every piece of an AI answer justify itself, so a nine phase plan comes back as three steps.

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What's Inside

The repo and the one line install Why every AI answer lands in the worst part of the bell curve The rule that works when asking for 'simpler' does not The 26 words that mean your AI is stalling instead of thinking The one thing you must never simplify, and why it matters most

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Get It Installed First

The whole thing is a free Claude Code skill.

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The Problem: The Middle Of The Curve

Picture a bell curve with three people on it.

The rest of the guide

  1. Why Asking For Simpler FailsSimple is a taste word.
  2. The Rule: Complexity Pays RentEvery element of an answer that goes beyond the dumbest version that would work must name the exact thing that breaks without it.
  3. The 26 Words That Mean It Is StallingCertain phrases exist to let a claim avoid being checked.
  4. The Pass, In Seven StepsState the objective in one sentence.
  5. The PromptPaste this before any scoping question
  6. A Worked ExampleThe ask: a way to see which of my posts perform best.
  7. The Floor: What Never Gets CutThis discipline has one catastrophic failure mode.
  8. The Other DitchThe fool and the monk say identical words, and they are not giving the same answer.
  9. Do This TodayTake the last plan an AI gave you.

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Cooper Simson

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