Grading Your Own Prompts
Five angles for judging whether a prompt is actually good, plus a repeatable loop for improving one that isn't.
Five angles for judging a response
A prompt can be well-written and still miss: technically clear but wrong for your situation, or great once and unreliable the second time. Judge results, not just prompts, along five angles: is it technically well-formed, actually relevant, usable as-is, worth the effort it took, and reliable across similar requests.
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The improvement loop
- Baseline: write the prompt, note what you actually wanted, run it once.
- Gap analysis: name the specific shortfall (vague, missing context, wrong format, wrong scope).
- Targeted revision: fix one category at a time, not everything at once.
- Re-test: compare the new result to the old one; keep what changed for the better.
- Save it: a prompt that worked well for a recurring task is worth keeping as a template.
Two techniques for pressure-testing a good answer
Useful right after getting advice you like: it surfaces blind spots the first pass glossed over.
If the questions it asks are ones you'd already answered, your original prompt was specific enough. If they're new, you just found the gap.