Prompting

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. You paste a prompt. The AI returns three paragraphs that sound like every LinkedIn post you’ve ever scrolled past. Generic opener. Vague advice. A closing line about “leveraging synergies.” You close the tab and think the tool is broken. It’s probably not the model. It’s the input. ...

The one prompt that changed everything I spent months typing into ChatGPT like I was texting a friend. Short. Vague. Hoping for the best. And I’d get short, vague, garbage back. Then I tried something called meta-prompting. It’s not my invention — it was popularized by Dharmesh Shah, the founder of HubSpot. The idea is dead simple: instead of trying to write the perfect prompt yourself, you ask the AI to ask you questions first. ...