BREAKING: I stopped watching 2-hour YouTube tutorials.
Grok now turns any video into a step-by-step skill plan.
Here are 8 prompts that convert videos into mastery:
1. Comprehensive Overview
Prompt:
“I’ve shared a YouTube video. Give me a high-level overview of everything being taught, broken into the main skills, concepts, and phases, as if you’re introducing it to someone seeing it for the first time.”
2. Skill Tree Extraction
Prompt:
“From this video, identify the complete skill tree required to master the topic.
Organize it from foundational skills to advanced execution.”
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google engineers don't write prompts like everyone else. They engineer context.
Here are 10 ways to use context in your prompts to get pro-level output from every LLM out there:
1/ PERSONA + EXPERTISE CONTEXT (For any task)
LLMs don't just need instructions. They need to "become" someone. When you give expertise context, the model activates completely different reasoning patterns.
A "senior developer" prompt produces code that's fundamentally different from a generic one.
Prompt:
"You are a [specific role] with [X years] experience at [top company/institution]. Your expertise includes [3-4 specific skills]. You're known for [quality that matters for this task].
Your communication style is [direct/analytical/creative].
Task: [your actual request]"
2/ REFERENCE CONTEXT (For websites & content)
All of us know this that LLMs hallucinate when they guess what you want.
When you show them exactly what "good" looks like, they stop guessing. Reference context transforms vague requests into precise execution.
This is how agencies get consistent brand voice across hundreds of outputs.
Prompt:
"REFERENCE EXAMPLES:
[Paste 2-3 examples of the style/format you want]
WHAT MAKES THESE WORK:
- [Pattern 1 you noticed]
- [Pattern 2 you noticed]
- [Pattern 3 you noticed]
NOW CREATE:
[Your specific request] following the exact patterns above. "
BREAKING: I stopped wasting hours reading textbooks cover to cover.
NotebookLM now teaches me directly from PDFs and notes.
Here are 9 prompts that turned documents into lessons:
1. Big Picture Breakdown
Prompt:
“I uploaded this PDF. Give me a high-level overview of the entire document, broken into key themes and concepts, as if you’re introducing it to someone seeing it for the first time.”
2. Teach Me Like a Student
Prompt:
“Teach the content of this document step by step, starting from the basics and gradually increasing difficulty. Assume I’m learning this subject for the first time.”
🚨 HOT TAKE: Google Research just dropped the textbook killer.
Its called "Learn Your Way" and it uses LearnLM to transform any PDF into 5 personalized learning formats. Students using it scored 78% vs 67% on retention tests.
The new education revolution is here.
The issue with textbooks is that they're the same for everyone and can be really boring.
Google's idea is genius: AI checks out what you like (like sports, music, or food) and knows your grade level, then changes the examples to fit what you actually care about.
Physics starts to make sense, and history feels more connected to you.
But it doesn't stop at personalization.
The system generates 5 completely different ways to learn the same content:
- Interactive text with embedded questions
- Audio lessons with AI teacher conversations
- Narrated slides with fill-in-the-blanks
- Mind maps you can zoom in/out
- Section quizzes