Reverse Prompt Engineering
Working backwards from the answer a model wants to produce: identifying the structured information it needs in order to answer a class of question well, and publishing exactly that.
Analogy Mental model
Predicting the essay question on the exam and putting the three required comparisons in a clean table on the first page, so the marker can lift the whole thing.
In practice What you actually do
Before writing, ask the target question in two or three assistants and study the shape of the current answer: the categories it sorts options into, the fields it always reports, the order it presents them in. Then structure your page to match that shape.
Where people get burned Pitfalls
Format alignment is the mechanism. The closer your page already resembles the answer the model intends to write, the cheaper it is for the model to extract from you, and extraction cost is what decides who gets cited.
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