Prompting and Task Execution·Task 1.3·Bloom: analyse·Difficulty 3/5·7 min read·Updated 2026-07-14

Recognising Convergence and Diminishing Returns (CCAO-F)

Iterate prompts to improve output quality

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In short
Iteration has converged when an additional round changes little rather than materially improving the output. Past convergence, a quick manual edit is more efficient than another prompting round, because the goal of iteration is a usable result, not a perfect prompt. The judgement is to stop chasing marginal wording gains while still running one more round when a clearly fixable component gap remains.

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