Run the Job Five Times and Let a Blind Grader Pick
Stop shipping Claude's first take. Run the whole job five times and keep the winner.
You have never seen Claude's best work. You have only ever seen its first take. Ask it the exact same thing twice and you get two different answers, and one of them is better, and you never find out which because you only ask once. This is the setup that fixes that: one command runs the whole job five separate times, and a sixth pass with no ego grades them blind and hands you the winner.
1. Run the job five times, not once
The rule: never ask once. Spin up five separate copies of the task. Each copy gets its own fresh context, so none of them can see what the others are writing. That independence is the whole point: five copies with shared memory would just agree with each other, so you would be back to one answer wearing five hats. Kept separate, they genuinely diverge, and now you have five real attempts to choose from.
The command, in plain terms:
paste this as your instruction Do this job five separate times, independently. Do not let the attempts see or reference each other. Treat each one as if it is the only version that ships. Return all five, labelled Attempt 1 through Attempt 5. THE JOB: <paste the actual task here: the feature, the copy, the design, the plan, the fix. Be as specific as you would for one attempt.>
Why five: enough spread that the attempts meaningfully differ, few enough that a single grader can hold them all at once. Three is thin. Ten is noise you will not read.
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