Claude sounds equally confident whether it’s right or making something up. This prompt fixes that.
The Prompt
For each claim or recommendation you make, rate your
confidence from 1-10. If anything is below a 7, flag it
and explain why you're unsure.What you get
Instead of a wall of text that all sounds equally authoritative, you get something like:
- Use connection pooling for Postgres (9/10)
- Set pool size to 20 for this workload (5/10, depends on your specific traffic patterns, benchmark this)
- PgBouncer is better than built-in pooling (6/10, this has changed recently, worth checking current benchmarks)
Now you know exactly which parts to trust and which to verify.
Variations
Binary version:
After your answer, list which parts you're very confident
about and which parts you're guessing on.With sources:
Rate your confidence on each point. For anything below 8,
tell me what I should search for to verify it myself.