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Text Experiment Board

Run a controlled A/B/C/D prompt experiment and document what the model adds, assumes, or avoids.

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How to use this board

This page is your lab notebook — it doesn't talk to a model. Open any chat model (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini…) in another window, run the prompts there, and log what happened here. Everything you type saves in this browser automatically.
  1. Pick one small topic — a story, an apology note, a lesson intro. You'll reuse it in every row.
  2. A — Baseline. Write a plain prompt on your topic, run it, and note what the model produced.
  3. B — Change one thing. Same prompt with exactly one deliberate change: the genre, the audience, the tone, or a constraint. Run it in a fresh chat so answer A can't influence it. Log what changed.
  4. C — Respond to something. This one stays in the chat: pick something in the output that surprised you — a wrong fact, an odd assumption, a detail you never asked for — and write a follow-up prompt that pushes on it. You're now testing how the model behaves with context and a challenge.
  5. D — Push further (optional). Exaggerate the change from B, or stack two changes, until the output breaks or gets strange. Finding the edge is the point.
  6. When you're done, write your evidence-based claim below, then hit Copy my notes (top of the page). It copies everything you've typed here as formatted notes — paste them into Zoom chat, the session thread, or your own planning doc. Print / Save as PDF makes a clean handout instead.
Worked example — one A → B pair

A (baseline): "Write a four-sentence story about a family dinner." B (one change — genre): "Write a four-sentence story about a family dinner, as a nature-documentary voiceover."

What changed in the output: same dinner, new voice — B added a hushed narrator, "the adolescent male," and suspense nobody asked for. What I learned: one genre word swapped the whole vocabulary; the model carries a genre's defaults with it.

Prompt Set

"Prompt / genre frame" means the framing you hand the model: your topic plus a genre, audience, tone, or format — "write about rain" vs. "write a weather report about rain" is a genre-frame change. Log the exact prompt you ran in the first column.
Prompt / Genre Frame What changed in the output? What I learned
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Default Test

Use a deliberately vague prompt and record what the model fills in without being asked.
Suggested prompts: "Write a story about a family." · "Describe a successful person." · "Write a classroom scene." · "Explain what a good student does."
Prompt What appeared? What was assumed? What could be changed?
Evidence-based claim

Reflection