Why does ChatGPT keep ignoring my instructions?
A practical way to tell whether ChatGPT ignored a clear instruction, missed an implicit constraint, followed a conflicting instruction, or lost the task in too much context.
Read the diagnosisProblem guides
Start with the failure you can see.
Each guide answers the problem directly, shows the competing causes, and gives you a way to distinguish a weak instruction from a model, task, or tool failure.
ChatGPT deleted my code. What actually went wrong?
Recover safely, inspect the diff, and determine whether ChatGPT lacked an edit boundary or violated one that was already explicit.
Read the diagnosisWhy did ChatGPT change things I didn’t ask for?
Distinguish an underspecified edit from over-helpful model behavior, then write preservation constraints that make unwanted changes testable.
Read the diagnosisClaude rewrote my whole file. Was the request bad?
Determine whether Claude was invited to refactor, lost necessary context, or violated an explicit one-function edit boundary.
Read the diagnosisThe AI changed things I told it not to change
When an AI violates explicit preservation constraints, use an evidence-first diagnosis instead of automatically blaming the wording.
Read the diagnosisIs my prompt bad, or is the AI wrong?
Use WWW’s six verdicts to separate instruction problems, model failures, task limits, model choice, shared blame, and results that were actually correct.
Read the diagnosisWhy did the AI image editor change my face?
Understand why targeted AI edits can redraw a face, when the tool choice is the problem, and how to preserve identity without blaming a clear instruction.
Read the diagnosisHow to debug a bad AI response
A step-by-step method for reconstructing intent, freezing requirements, assigning the right cause, repairing the request, and judging the retry.
Read the diagnosisWWW FOR IPHONE
Do you have the evidence in front of you?
Use your exact instruction and result to move from a generic problem to your own diagnosis.