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Three AI Prompts, Written to Be Pasted as They Stand

These are the three AI prompts the book introduces, in full, written to be pasted as they stand.

Companion to You Are Not the User · Updated 2026-09-29

These are the three AI prompts the book introduces, in full, written to be pasted as they stand. All three forbid the AI from inventing requirements, users, quotes, or numbers, and all three stop short of making the decision. Keep those two rules if you adapt them. A prompt that lets an AI fill gaps with plausible users is a stand-in that writes faster than any product manager.

  1. Turn Raw Observations Into Testable Hypotheses
  2. Get Two or Three Genuinely Different Prototypes to Test
  3. Turn a Feature Into a UAT Plan That Tests Work

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  • Turn Raw Observations Into Testable Hypotheses

    Introduced in “Watch Users Work to Find What Causes Their Complaints.” Use it on a pile of tickets, CRM notes, and interview or observation notes when you want testable hypotheses without anyone quietly promoting a request to a.

  • Get Two or Three Genuinely Different Prototypes to Test

    Introduced in “AI Helps Most When It Removes Handoffs Between Users and Builders.” Use it once a problem has been observed and written up, to get two or three genuinely different working prototypes a real user can try, instead of.

  • Turn a Feature Into a UAT Plan That Tests Work

    Introduced in “AI Helps Most When It Removes Handoffs Between Users and Builders.” Use it to turn a feature and its target user role into a user acceptance testing plan that tests work, not screens.