An AI-generated draft can give an idea a quick visible form. That form may reveal a gap in the input: an undefined audience, an unsupported claim, or a section whose purpose is unclear.
Read the draft as something to inspect. Mark the places that require your own information and remove details that were supplied without a basis. A fluent opening should not make an invented fact look like part of the brief.
Use the identified gaps to refine the work. You may ask a narrower question or write the next version yourself. The useful contribution is a clearer task and an inspectable starting point, rather than a reason to skip the decisions that shape the final piece.
- Treat the first output as inspectable material.
- Mark missing and unsupported details.
- Use the gaps to refine the next step.
A small working example.
A rough generated outline may reveal that the intended reader is still undefined. That missing decision can be the most useful result of the first draft.
A note to keep beside it.
Treat an example as part of the instruction. Its omissions and boundaries can influence a result as much as the words that describe the task.
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