Short instructional YouTube monologue by Justin R. Lester arguing that most users prompt AI too simplistically and should instead use detailed "mega prompts." He defines mega prompts as role/task/goal-rich instructions, gives a concrete example (brand strategist → one-page marketing plan for sneakers in Atlanta, Gen Z tone, TikTok caption), and ends with a call-to-action offering a cheat sheet and chatbot.
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You're using ChatGPT or Claude or whatever, all wrong. And here's the real hack. See, Most people open ChatGPT and say things like this. Write me a business plan or plan out my week or plan out my day. And that's lazy prompting. The trick to using these large language models well is, well, better prompting. So here's how you get better results. It's what I like to call, or what everyone else is calling, mega prompts. Megapromps. Mega prompts. So when you get a mega prompt, here's what mega prompts. Doing mega prompts is then saying, I'm taking just beyond the basic thing you want and being sure that we're putting in a role or putting in a task or putting in a goal. Your mega prompting. Here's something like this. So instead of asking your AI tool to do something like write me a business plan, here's what you can do. Act as a brand strategist. Build me a one page marketing plan for a sneaker brand launching in Atlanta this fall. Make it direct, make it Gen Z friendly, and add a caption I can use for TikTok. There's a difference. Write me a business plan or be a brand strategist. Build me a whole plan where the location is, who your target audience is, how you want it to be said, and then where you're going to use it. Stop playing small with AI. You're leaving money on the table if you use it wrong. You comment prompt. I'll send you my full cheat sheet. And I'll send you a chatbot as well that you can have conversations with where together we can build mega prompts 24, 7.