State your reasons before your prompt and the AI will solve the right problem.

TL;DR: Tell the AI your reason before your request to get solutions that match your real constraints.

Common Mistake ❌

You send commands to the AI without context.

"Refactor this."

"Optimize this query."

"Add error handling."

The AI complies, but returns a generic (and probably hallucinated) solution that solves the average case, not your specific one.

You spend the next three messages correcting the trade-offs you never mentioned.

Problems Addressed 😔

The LLM has dozens of valid solutions for any request and picks the most statistically common one without your context .

You get correct (but wrong) results: technically valid code that doesn't fit your constraints.

You iterate more than necessary because the AI guessed wrong about what mattered.

The model makes trade-offs you didn't intend, favoring speed when you needed readability.

When the AI doesn't know the constraint, it can't explain why it chose a specific…