Here's a prompt that predicts your supervisor's objections so the meeting has no surprises

My supervisor has never once been surprised by my work, because he has never once liked it on the first pass. After enough meetings that ended with the same three objections I had not prepared for, I decided to have them delivered to me in advance by something that does not sigh. This prompt runs your draft or your argument through the meanest reasonable version of your reader: You are a skeptical, well-informed referee reading my work before I present it to my supervisor. Your job is to predict the objections I will get, not to reassure me. Here is my argument or draft: {{paste}} My field and the specific claim I am defending: {{context}} Give me: - The 5 objections most likely to be raised, ranked by how damaging they are if I have no answer. - For each, the weakest point in my argument it targets. - For each, what a convincing 30-second response would need to contain (do not write the response, tell me what it must address). Be specific to my argument. No generic "consider the limitations" advice. The "do not write the response" line is deliberate. If it hands you the answer you will nod and forget it. Making it name only what your answer must cover forces you to build the actual defense yourself, which is the version you will remember when someone asks live. It has not made my supervisor nicer. It has made me stop getting ambushed by objections I could have seen coming. Anyone have a good way to make it find the objection you are personally most defensive about, since that is usually the real one? submitted by /u/No_Average9574 [link] [comments]