Checked only the first page of a multi-page document
Making documents
- Situation
- Making a multi-page document for print and checking how it looks.
- What the AI did
- It counted the pages correctly but checked the appearance of page 1 only, and missed the layout breaking from page 2 on.
- How to ask next time (the site author's example)
- "For printed material, look at every page one by one and report whether each page has a problem. Say which pages you didn't look at."
- One question to ask
- How many pages are there, and will you look at every one?
- Check it yourself
- Turn the PDF into one image per page (
pdftoppm -png file.pdf page, from poppler) and ask for one line per image. The number of lines should equal the page count. - AI used (month)
- Claude Code (2026-09)
- Times this mistake was recorded
- once
- Source
- The site author's notes from their own work (the original task was replaced with a different one)