Prompt·Correctness and reliability·R02
Fallbacks that look like real data
Finds screens that show a confident zero or an empty list when the real answer is 'we could not load this'.
Prompt
Trace every place the application silently substitutes a default, null, stale value, or empty result when something fails. Determine whether users could mistake the fallback for valid information.
- What it returns
- Each fallback with its trigger, what the user sees, and whether anything tells them it is a fallback.
- Skip it when
- Fallbacks that are already labelled on screen.
- Changes
- Changes nothing
- Sessions
- One session
- Tools
- Repository; the app running to see what users see.
- Also called
- Misleading fallbacks
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