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Level Starter · Purchase Compare Decision
Buying: criteria before specs
Spec sheets drown you while only two or three things actually matter.
Prompt
Help me pick one from these {{category}} options.
Candidates: {{candidates}}
My use: {{use}}
Budget: {{budget}}
What I care about, ranked: {{cares}}
What I do not care about: {{dontcare}}
Requirements:
1. Translate my priorities into checkable criteria, e.g. 'quiet' becomes 'is a decibel figure published'.
2. Comparison table covering only those criteria; write 'no public data' where it is missing.
3. A conclusion for my use case, stating what it gives up.
4. A condition under which I should switch to another option.
Do not recommend outside the list unless my candidates are clearly mismatched; then say so directly.What to state before it starts
Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.
- {{candidates}}: keep it under 5 or it starts inventing
- {{cares}}: order matters; the first two decide the answer
- {{dontcare}}: cutting dimensions in half
Go through each of these
Where this kind of work most often goes wrong. Already in the prompt, so you do not have to remember it.
- 'No public data' is the key line; otherwise it fills in a plausible number.
- The switch condition is often more useful than the verdict.