4 Next-Level ChatGPT Techniques (Save 15+ Hours Weekly)
By Jeff Su
Summary
## Key takeaways - **Reverse Engineer Prompts for Perfect Outputs**: The prompt reversal technique allows you to bypass iterative refinement by generating a single, optimized prompt that would have produced your desired final output from the start. This saves time and helps you learn how to write better prompts. [00:04], [02:09] - **Amplify Content Across Multiple Formats**: Transform a single piece of 'pillar content,' like a slide deck, into various formats such as quizzes, recap emails, or client-facing infographics. This repurposing saves significant manual effort and extends the reach of your core material. [04:23], [05:00] - **Use AI to Critique Its Own Work**: Employ the 'Red Team Technique' by having AI first generate content from your perspective, then immediately adopt a critical, opposing persona to identify weaknesses. This allows you to anticipate challenges and strengthen your message before external review. [06:09], [07:32] - **Force AI to Outline Reasoning Before Executing**: Blueprint scaffolding requires the AI to first outline its step-by-step reasoning or structure before generating the final output. This allows for early course correction on complex tasks, ensuring relevance and accuracy by reviewing the plan before execution. [08:13], [09:55]
Topics Covered
- How to get perfect AI results in one shot?
- Amplify existing content with AI in minutes.
- Critique your AI outputs with the Red Team technique.
- Guide AI's thinking for better, targeted outputs.
Full Transcript
Diving right in, we have the prompt
reversal technique for Chacha BT. And
here's what it does. You know that back
and forth we all have with AI. After
that initial prompt, we get a first
result that's maybe 50% of what we want.
So, we ask for some changes. The second
result gets us to 60% and this goes on
and on until we finally land on
something that's about 90% of what we
wanted, right? What if we could skip all
that back and forth and just jump
straight to the near-perfect result
every single time? That's what prompt
reversal does. Think of it like cooking
without a recipe. You add some salt,
taste it, add some pepper, and keep
tweaking until the dish is perfect.
Right? Prompt reversal is like having a
robot scan that final dish and producing
the exact recipe we needed from the
start so that next time we nail it in
one shot. Let's go through a real world
example so you see exactly how this
works. I start off by asking Chachi BT
to analyze our main competitor,
Anthropic, and walk me through their
business strategy. I receive a
comprehensive overview of Anthropic's
entire business. But this is way too
dense. I'm not sure what I should focus
on. So, I course correct and I say,
"Hey, this is too dense. Restructure
this into the SWAT analysis format.
Strengths weaknesses opportunities
and threats. I want three bullet points
per section and use clear and simple
words." and I get a targeted SWAT
analysis. But now this is too concise.
The bullet points need more detail. So I
refine again. Hey, uh, this is now too
concise. Flesh out each bullet point and
add a subheading under each section
called our strategic response and
suggest one concrete action that we can
take. Finally, I get exactly what I
want. Strengths, three supporting bullet
points, recommended action. Weaknesses,
three subordinating bullet points,
recommended action. Same thing for
opportunities and same thing for
threats. Perfect. Now, here's where the
magic happens. Instead of accepting this
result and moving on, I add one final
prompt. Reverse engineer our
conversation and write the single prompt
that would have produced my final
response in one go. And look at this.
Chatbt outputs the reverse engineered
prompt in a code block for easy copy
pasting. And we can test this out. I'm
just going to copy this code, open up a
new chat, paste it in, click enter, and
I'm just going to fast forward this part
here.
And as you can see, we got that perfect
detailed analysis in one step. That's
pretty awesome. Not only does
this technique save us so much time and
effort over the long run, but it also
captures all those little details we
refined along the way. And it helps us
become better prompt writers because we
can actually see how optimized prompts
are structured. Pro tip, people often
ask me which prompts I save to my
prompts database in Notion. And
honestly, most of these prompts come
from the prompt reversal technique
because those are the best prompts I use
repeatedly. Speaking of writing better
prompts, today's sponsor, HubSpot, has
an awesome resource I'm pretty impressed
with. It's their free ebook for
professionals, Supercharge Your Workday
with ChachiBT. Longtime viewers know I
made an entire video on Google Gemini's
guide for professionals. And while that
was a good start, the HubSpot ebook goes
way deeper into actionable strategies
for specific corporate roles. In fact,
their section on prompt databases
inspired a popular tip for my corporate
workshops, which is to assign one single
gatekeeper per team to add, refine, and
remove templates from a shared prompts
database. I'll leave a link to the free
ebook in the description, and thank you
HubSpot for sponsoring this portion of
the video. All right, moving on to hack
number two, a technique I call the
fiveinut amplifier. diving right into a
real world example. When I was a
marketing manager at Google, I had to
rely on the product and sales teams to
provide content for my campaigns. I'd be
like, "Hey, you're going to send me
those slides tomorrow, right?" And
they'd be like, "Oh, yeah, for sure.
Promise." A week later, I'd be like,
"Yo, where are the slides?" And they'd
be like, "Oh, I'm so sorry. I was busy
pitching clients and generating
shareholder value, something you
marketing folks won't understand." And
I'd be like, "Oh,
go yourself." Just kidding. I love
the sales team.
Anyways, with ChadBt, as long as I can
get my hands on their main slide deck, I
can amplify that content all by myself.
For example, I can ask the AI to create
an engaging 10 question quiz based on
their slides with multiple choice
options and the correct answer
indicated. Boom. Now, we can test the
audience's knowledge and keep them
engaged. Next, I'd have Catchup draft an
internal recap email for stakeholders
who couldn't attend the event,
summarizing the key takeaways and
product updates. Then, I might ask the
AI to create an external client-f facing
infographic that pulls out the most
impactful stats from those original
slides. And now, I have a follow-up
asset to share with clients. And this
works across any department or role,
right? The sales team can turn an
industry report from marketing into cold
emails for client outreach, a LinkedIn
post to generate leads and a list of
talking points for their next call. HR
can turn a 1-hour webinar transcript
into a quick reference guide with
step-by-step instructions, an FAQ for
the company internet, and a knowledge
check quiz for attendees. The benefits
should be pretty obvious by now. We
basically save hours of manual
reformatting and rewriting by using AI
to repurpose one higheffort piece of
content we already have access to. Pro
tip, be selective about your source
material and only amplify what I call
pillar content, your highquality proven
work like a successful presentation or a
datari report because the AI will
magnify the quality of what you give it.
Garbage in, garbage out, right? If you
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moving on to strategy number three, the
red team technique. This is a simple
two-step method. First, you ask the AI
to create something from your
perspective. Then, and here's the
important part, you immediately ask it
to flip the script and adopt a critical
and opposing persona. Let's go through
some examples. First up, job
applications. You first ask Chashib to
tailor your resume for a job
description. Instead of stopping there,
you then flip the script by following up
with, "Now act as a hiring manager for
this role. You're extremely busy and
only have 60 seconds to scan the resume
you just helped me write. What are your
immediate red flags?"
Example two, after asking AI to draft a
business proposal for your CFO, you
redte team that proposal with you are
now the company's chief financial
officer CFO and your primary goal is to
cut unnecessary costs. Read the proposal
you just generated and critique it.
What's the biggest financial risk? Why
isn't the ROI justified?
Example three. After asking Chacht to
refine a cold outreach email, you tell
the AI, "You are now that VP of
marketing I'm targeting." You get 50
cold emails like this every day. Read
the email you just wrote and tell me
your immediate unfiltered reaction.
Which specific sentences make you hit
the delete button and why?
As you can see by now, the red team
technique helps us anticipate
challenges, giving us the opportunity to
strengthen our message before it reaches
a realworld audience. Pro tip: be
extremely specific with the persona you
ask the AI to adopt. Don't just say act
as a critic. Give it a detailed role
with clear motivations like you are a
risk averse CTO whose main concern is
data security. The more specific the
persona, the more insightful the
feedback. Pro tip number two, turn the
AI's critique into an actionable to-do
list. Use another follow-up prompt like
based on the weaknesses you just
identified, help me rewrite the three
weakest sentences in the original email.
This closes the loop and helps you
instantly improve your work based on the
feedback. All right, our fourth hack is
a technique I call blueprint
scaffolding. In a nutshell, this forces
the AI to explain its step-by-step
reasoning before it delivers the final
output. It's like finalizing the
blueprint of a house before actually
building the house. Diving right into an
example, I start off with a basic prompt
like, I offer an online course called
the Workspace Academy. I need a
marketing campaign brief for the Q4
holiday promotion. And the result is
extremely generic here uh and includes a
lot of information. I don't really need
for example like tracking UTM's
measurement operations and roles risks
and mitigation right I don't need to see
any of this right now with blueprint
scaffolding the improved prompt looks
something like this I offer an online
course called the workspace academy blah
blah blah this is all the same and then
first outline the standard sections of a
professional brief and give me a one-s
sentence description for each section by
seeing this blueprint first I
immediately realized okay it's giving me
way too much information. I don't need
18 bullet points or sections, right? So,
I can course correct immediately.
There's too much irrelevant information.
Apply the 80/20 rule and give me only
the essential sections for an email
marketing campaign with a three email
sequence. All right. And this tightened
up version is way better. So, I just end
with, okay, let's just remove seven to
eight cuz those again are not that
important. And then proceed with
fleshing out the entire brief. Right?
And this final output is way more
targeted and relevant than the generic
response we received earlier. The rule
of thumb here is for complex tasks that
require multiple steps, nuance, or a
specific structure, always ask to first
break down its thought process, review
and make changes as needed, then
execute. It's like reviewing an
architect's blueprint before they start
building. Right? by spotting an
incorrect measurement before they pour
the concrete. We're safe from having to
tear down the whole thing later. And if
you watch my video on the GPT5 update,
asking Chacht to articulate its steps
forces the invisible router to select a
more powerful reasoning path, which
leads to a more accurate and well
ststructured final output. Pro tip, we
can take this technique a step further
by defining success metrics upfront. For
example, I need a social media campaign
brief. First outline the steps and for
each step define the success metric. For
instance, for our competitor analysis,
the metric is a report with three
actionable takeaways. This builds
clarity and accountability into the
output from the very beginning. If you
enjoyed these tips, you should
definitely check out my top five chatbt
use cases for professionals. See you on
the next video. In the meantime, have a
great one.
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