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Ghostwriter for Technical Founders & CTOs | Trilingual surfer living overseas since ‘14 | AI launches with @sentientagency
Apr 16 12 tweets 2 min read
After 3 years of testing every AI tool, I can say Claude is the only one I actually pay for.

So here are 10 prompts that make it 10x more powerful than most people realize: 1/ The "Ghost Editor" prompt

Paste your draft and say:

"Rewrite this in my voice. Keep every idea. Cut every word that doesn't earn its place. Make it punchy."

Claude doesn't just edit. It preserves your thinking while making it 3x sharper.
Apr 2 13 tweets 5 min read
This blew my mind.

OpenAI just published the first comprehensive study of how 700 million people actually use ChatGPT.

The results destroy every assumption about AI adoption.

Here's everything you need to know in 3 minutes: Image "ChatGPT is mainly for work"

Reality check: Only 27% of ChatGPT usage is work-related. 73% is personal. And the gap is widening every month.

The productivity revolution narrative completely misses how people actually use AI. Image
Mar 30 13 tweets 4 min read
Perplexity Computer has been quietly shipping features that make every other AI tool feel like a chatbot.

Most people don't even know these exist.

Here are 10 things it can do right now that will change how you work ↓ Image 𝟏. Scheduled Tasks That Run While You Sleep

Computer doesn't just answer questions — it runs jobs on a schedule.

→ "Every Monday at 7am, audit my website SEO and email me the report"
→ "Every morning, pull competitor pricing changes and flag anything new"
→ "Every Friday at 5pm, compile my team's weekly metrics from Slack and Sheets"

You set it once. It runs forever. No reminders. No manual work.

You wake up and the work is already done.
Mar 23 13 tweets 7 min read
BREAKING: AI can now analyze any stock like a Wall Street analyst (for free).

Here are 10 insane Claude prompts that replace $2,000/month Bloomberg terminals:(Save for later) Image 1. The Goldman Sachs Stock Screener

"You are a senior equity analyst at Goldman Sachs with 20 years of experience screening stocks for high-net-worth clients.

I need a complete stock screening framework for my investment goals.

Analyze and provide:

- Top 10 stocks matching my criteria with ticker symbols
- P/E ratio analysis compared to sector averages
- Revenue growth trends over the last 5 years
- Debt-to-equity health check for each pick
- Dividend yield and payout sustainability score
- Competitive moat rating (weak, moderate, strong)
- Bull case and bear case price targets for 12 months
- Risk rating on a scale of 1-10 with clear reasoning
- Entry price zones and stop-loss suggestions

Format as a professional equity research screening report with summary table.

My investment profile: [DESCRIBE YOUR RISK TOLERANCE, INVESTMENT AMOUNT, TIME HORIZON, AND PREFERRED SECTORS]"
Mar 5 19 tweets 3 min read
BREAKING: AI can now build you a business in 24 hours.

Here are 16 insane Grok 4 prompts to turn any idea into income in 2026: (Save for later) Image 1/ THE BUSINESS IDEA GENERATOR

"I have $500 and 10 hours per week. Analyze current market gaps, my skills in [your skills], and generate 5 business ideas I could launch this month. Include startup costs, timeline, and first revenue projections."

This prompt is stupid powerful.
Mar 3 4 tweets 2 min read
🚨BREAKING: Building Claude skills from scratch is dead.

Someone just open-sourced a library of battle-tested skills you can copy/paste.

- Document generation (all formats)
- Web scraping & automation
- Data processing pipelines
- API integrations

No more reinventing the wheel.

100% Opensource.Image Here's the repo: github.com/BehiSecc/aweso…
Mar 2 12 tweets 6 min read
🚨BREAKING: Someone turned Naval Ravikant's mental models into AI prompts and the results are insane.

It's the closest thing to having the AngelList founder rebuild your career from scratch.

Here are the 10 prompts that completely changed my life: Image 1. Specific Knowledge Audit

Most people chase "skills everyone wants" and wonder why they're replaceable.

I use this to find what only I can do:

Prompt:

```
You are Naval Ravikant analyzing my career for specific knowledge.

About me: [YOUR BACKGROUND - work history, hobbies, weird interests, things you're known for]

Answer:
1. What specific knowledge do I have that can't be trained? (look for intersections no one else has)
2. What do I know from experience that can't be learned in school?
3. What would I do for free that people will eventually pay me for?
4. Where am I authentic that others are faking it?

Be ruthless. If I don't have specific knowledge yet, tell me where to build it.
```Image
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Feb 24 14 tweets 5 min read
R.I.P LinkedIn and job boards.

Top candidates now use LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude Opus, Gemini) as their secret career coach tailoring everything perfectly and landing interviews 3–5x faster.

Here are 12 killer prompts that helped me and dozens of others switch jobs or level up: Image Prompt 1: The Resume Surgeon

"Act as a senior hiring manager at [target company].
Review my resume for [role]. List every reason
you'd reject me, then rewrite each weak section
to make me an obvious hire."

Most people ask AI to "improve" their resume.
This makes it brutal which makes it better.Image
Feb 23 12 tweets 5 min read
🚨 I built the same app 5 times: once with Claude (XML prompts), GPT-4 (markdown), Gemini (structured lists), Grok (aggressive tone), and DeepSeek (minimal).

Each using their "scientifically optimal" prompting style.

The winner shocked me and it wasn't close. Here's what broke my mental model:Image The setup was identical for all 5 models:

Task: "Build a full-stack expense tracker with React, Node, PostgreSQL, auth, and data viz"

Evaluation: Code quality, functionality, bugs, time

Only variable: Prompt style (each model got its "scientifically optimal" format)

Let me show you what happened.Image
Feb 20 12 tweets 3 min read
R.I.P Google Scholar.

I'm going to share the 10 Perplexity prompts that turn research from a chore into a superpower.

Copy & paste these into Perplexity right now: Image 1. Competitive Intelligence Deep Dive

"Analyze [company name]'s product strategy, recent feature releases, pricing changes, and customer sentiment from the last 6 months. Compare against top 3 competitors. Include any executive statements or strategy shifts."
Feb 17 13 tweets 3 min read
R.I.P to every consulting firm charging $500/hr for a SWOT analysis.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 just made you irrelevant.

Here are 10 prompts that deliver McKinsey-level strategy in minutes (steal them now): Image 1/ LITERATURE REVIEW SYNTHESIZER

Prompt:

"Analyze these 20 research papers on [topic]. Create a gap analysis table showing: what's been studied, what's missing, contradictions between studies, and 3 unexplored opportunities."

I fed Claude 47 papers on AI regulation.

It found gaps 3 human researchers missed.
Feb 16 15 tweets 3 min read
I spent 3 weeks analyzing the most powerful ChatGPT research prompts that actual academics are hiding.

The difference between spending 6 hours on literature review vs 8 minutes.

12 prompts I use daily for my PhD work.

Steal them 👇 Image 1. THE LITERATURE SYNTHESIZER

"I'm researching [topic]. Synthesize the key arguments from these 5 papers: [paste abstracts]. Identify theoretical frameworks, methodology gaps, and conflicting findings. Create a comparison table."

Turns 3 hours of note-taking into 4 minutes.
Feb 11 6 tweets 2 min read
Say goodbye to $500/hour lawyers.

You can now use Claude 4 to draft and explain startup contracts better than junior lawyers.

Here’s the mega prompt that automates your entire legal workflow in seconds: Image Claude handles every startup staple like a pro:

• Mutual & one-way NDAs
• Master Service Agreements (MSAs)
• Independent contractor agreements
• SaaS Terms of Service
• Investor SAFE notes

And it explains each clause in plain English so you can tweak as needed.
Feb 10 15 tweets 5 min read
Claude explains complex topics better than any AI I've tested.

You can use it to learn machine learning, SQL, and statistics and go from zero coding to building ML models in weeks.

Here are 10 Claude prompts that teach you anything faster for free: Image 1. The Feynman Technique

"Explain [topic] like I'm teaching it to someone else tomorrow. Include:

3 core concepts I must understand
2 common misconceptions to avoid
1 simple analogy to remember it
3 questions to test my understanding"

Claude becomes your study partner. Image
Feb 4 11 tweets 5 min read
R.I.P generic prompting.

Context engineering is the new king.

Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google engineers don't write prompts like everyone else. They engineer context.

Here are 8 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]"Image
Jan 23 14 tweets 5 min read
R.I.P LinkedIn and job boards.

Top candidates now use LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude Opus, Gemini) as their secret career coach tailoring everything perfectly and landing interviews 3–5x faster.

Here are 12 killer prompts that helped me and dozens of others switch jobs or level up: Image 1. ATS-Proof Resume Tailor

Prompt:

"Here is my current resume [paste full text or upload PDF].

Here is the job description [paste JD].

Rewrite my resume to perfectly match:

- Incorporate exact keywords/phrases from JD
- Quantify achievements where possible
- Keep under 1 page, bullet format
- Highlight top 3–5 matches in a summary

Output: Full revised resume + list of changes made."Image
Jan 14 14 tweets 5 min read
WARNING: After you use these prompts, you’ll never write the same way again.

This might be the most useful thing I’ve shared all year.

Here are 12 prompts turn any LLM into a full writing studio that works harder than you do: 1/ The “Voice Injection” Prompt

Gets the model to fully absorb your writing style.

“Here are 5 samples of my writing. Extract my tone, pacing, sentence structure, and emotional signatures. Confirm when my ‘voice profile’ is ready.”

This sets the foundation. Image
Jan 12 7 tweets 3 min read
RIP McKinsey.

You don’t need a $300k consultant anymore.

You can now run full competitive market analysis using Gemini 3.0 Pro.

Here are the exact 3 mega-prompts I use to replicate McKinsey-style insights for free: Image Let me tell you what McKinsey consultants actually do:

1. Analyze industry trends and competitive dynamics
2. Benchmark companies and products
3. Identify strategic risks and opportunities
4. Package it all in fancy slides and charge 6 figures

But guess what?

AI can now do 90% of that instantly.

Let me show you how:
Jan 10 15 tweets 2 min read
I collected every Claude prompt that went viral on Reddit, X, and research communities.

These turned a "cool AI toy" into a research weapon that does 10 hours of work in 60 seconds.

13 copy-paste prompts. Zero fluff. Image 1. The “Contradictions Finder”

Perfect for papers, reports, or long docs.

“List all internal contradictions, unresolved tensions, or claims that don’t fully follow from the evidence.”

It catches things humans gloss over.
Jan 9 13 tweets 4 min read
Chain of Thought is dead.

I just tested Atom of Thought prompting and it's making AI models 30-40% more accurate on complex reasoning tasks.

Here's the technique that's about to change how everyone uses ChatGPT and Claude: Image The problem with Chain of Thought: it forces linear thinking.

Real problem-solving doesn't work that way. Your brain doesn't solve physics problems by thinking step 1 → step 2 → step 3.

You break complex problems into atomic components, then recombine them. Image
Jan 6 16 tweets 3 min read
Prompt engineering is dead.

Anthropic just published their internal playbook on what actually matters: XML-structured prompting.

Only 2% of users know this exists.

Here's what changed: Anthropic's engineers built Claude to understand XML tags.

Not as code.

As cognitive containers.

Each tag tells Claude: "This is a separate thinking space."

It's like giving the model a filing system.