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Lessons / Part 1. Chat assistants and prompting

10 When words do not converge, edit the file and hand it back

After three rounds of nudging a figure, you make the edit by hand and the assistant changes only the one thing left.

What people usually ask

Round three: Move the label a bit left and make the arrow shorter.

What comes back

The label moves and the arrow shortens, and two other elements shift with them, so round four is spent undoing round three.

Ask this instead

I opened the SVG in a text editor and moved the label myself. The file pasted below is the new baseline; treat every part of it as correct except one.
Change only the line element with id="arrow3": set its x2 to 210. Leave every other element, attribute and number exactly as it is, whitespace included.
Before the code block, one line naming the change you made. Then the whole file in one code block with nothing after the closing fence.

<the whole SVG file, pasted>

Attach: The edited SVG or LaTeX file pasted whole, after the hand edits are in it.

Why it works: A file with the fix already in it leaves one named change to make, so there is nothing left for the assistant to reinterpret.

Drafted with Fable 5.1 from my notes; chosen and edited by me.