Lock your own answer first

When we see a confident answer before we have thought, it pulls our own judgement towards it. This is called anchoring, and it happens to experts too.

So before you ask a tool, write down your own answer, even a rough one: your estimate, your first draft, your guess at the diagnosis of a problem.

Then compare. Where you agree, good. Where you disagree, you now have a real question to look into, instead of quietly adopting whatever came back first.