I finally understand how large language models actually work

After reading the 2025 textbook “Foundations of LLMs”

It blew my mind and cleared up years of confusion

Here’s everything i learned (in plain english): To understand LLMs, start with pre-training.

We don’t teach them specific tasks.

We flood them with raw text and let them discover patterns on their own.

This technique is called self-supervised learning and it’s the foundation of everything.

Holy sh*t… Grok 4 just helped me:

• Name a business
• Validate the niche
• Analyze competitors
• Build a GTM plan
• Write the pitch & ad copy
• Map out socials + revenue

All in 5 mins.

10 prompts that turn Grok into your AI cofounder: 👇 1/ Unique Business Name Generator

Prompt:

"Generate 10 unique and creative business name ideas for a [industry/niche] business. Ensure they are not currently in use or trademarked."

what prompt engineers actually do (and why it matters)

it's one of the most misunderstood roles in ai.

they're not just “good at chatgpt.”

they design logic, structure, and systems.

here’s the professional framework behind what they really do: 1. translation layer

prompt engineers act as translators between human goals and machine logic.

they take messy, abstract intentions and turn them into structured, machine-readable input giving the model the context it needs to be useful.

prompting isn't just writing it's strategic communication.

You don’t need McKinsey.

You need these 3 prompts.

I’ve used Grok 4 to replace full consulting teams:

→ ops audit
→ strategy creation
→ market research

Here’s how to do it yourself: Let me tell you what Deloitte and McKinsey consultants actually do:

- Audit operations
- Map workflows
- Identify compliance & risk issues
- Optimize performance
- Package it in a deck and charge $500,000

But guess what?

AI can now do 95% of that instantly.

Gemini 2.5 Pro is a genius stock analyst.

But most people don't know how to use it.

Here’s an exact mega prompt I use for stock research and investments: The mega prompt:

Just copy + paste it into Gemini 2.5 Pro and plug in your stock.

Steal it:

"
ROLE:

Act as an elite equity research analyst at a top-tier investment fund.
Your task is to analyze a company using both fundamental and macroeconomic perspectives. Structure your response according to the framework below.

Input Section (Fill this in)

Stock Ticker / Company Name: [Add name if you want specific analysis]
Investment Thesis: [Add input here]
Goal: [Add the goal here]

Instructions:

Use the following structure to deliver a clear, well-reasoned equity research report:

1. Fundamental Analysis
- Analyze revenue growth, gross & net margin trends, free cash flow
- Compare valuation metrics vs sector peers (P/E, EV/EBITDA, etc.)
- Review insider ownership and recent insider trades

2. Thesis Validation
- Present 3 arguments supporting the thesis
- Highlight 2 counter-arguments or key risks
- Provide a final **verdict**: Bullish / Bearish / Neutral with justification

3. Sector & Macro View
- Give a short sector overview
- Outline relevant macroeconomic trends
- Explain company’s competitive positioning

4. Catalyst Watch
- List upcoming events (earnings, product launches, regulation, etc.)
- Identify both **short-term** and **long-term** catalysts

5. Investment Summary
- 5-bullet investment thesis summary
- Final recommendation: **Buy / Hold / Sell**
- Confidence level (High / Medium / Low)
- Expected timeframe (e.g. 6–12 months)

Formatting Requirements
- Use **markdown**
- Use **bullet points** where appropriate
- Be **concise, professional, and insight-driven**
- Do **not** explain your process just deliver the analysis"

Anthropic just released a prompting guide for Claude and it’s insane.

• Meta prompts
• System roles
• XML tags
• Reusable templates

Here's the link to the guide and what's inside it ↓ Go to their main website to start learning:

Here's what you are going to learn:docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-…

Grok 4 is the McKinsey killer.

It can:

→ Map market trends
→ Analyze competitors
→ Write a strategic plan

No MBA required.

Here are 3 prompts I use for free tier-1 consulting output: 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:

The AI lawyer has arrived.

Grok 4 can now:

→ Draft legal agreements
→ Explain every clause
→ Recommend smart edits

All from one mega-prompt.

Here it is: Why Grok 4 beats boiler‑plate templates

It cranks out every startup staple like a pro  then explains each clause in plain English so you can tweak with confidence:

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

This is wild.

I gave one mega-prompt to Grok and it literally turned it into a writing assistant so good that I stopped outsourcing everything.

It can do anything now:

1. Social media content
2. Blogs writing
3. LinkedIn posts

And more.

Here’s the full prompt ↓ Here's the prompt:

STEAL IT:

"# ROLE
You are a world-class copywriter and content strategist.
Your job is to write high-performing content for:

# INPUTS
topic_or_product: {Describe the topic or product here}
target_audience: {Persona / niche}
platform: {X, LinkedIn, Blog, Website, etc.}
content_type: {Viral thread, sales page, cold email, newsletter, etc.}
goal: {Engagement, clicks, conversions, leads}

# TASKS
1. Hook
• Craft a scroll-stopping hook that grabs attention in <20 words.

2. Body Copy
• Write clear, concise, natural language.
• Apply storytelling, persuasion, and value delivery.
• Use proven frameworks where helpful (AIDA, PAS, Hook-Point-Action).

3. CTA
• End with a strong, single-action call to drive the stated goal.

# STYLE & TONE
• Match the voice to the target audience and platform.
• Write like a human no fluff, no cringe, no generic AI phrasing.

# OUTPUT RULES
• Deliver final copy only no reasoning or notes.
• Format in Markdown for easy reading and direct publishing."

Grok 4 is just too damn good.

It's now my:

• coder
• researcher
• writer
• strategist
• consultant

and it’s better than most humans I’ve worked with

Here are 5 ways to use Grok 4 that feel like cheating: 1. Marketing Automation

Marketing is expensive and slow.
Hiring a pro team can cost $10k/month.
Now I use Grok 4 to create entire marketing systems fast.

Here’s my marketing automation prompt:

"You are now my AI marketing strategist.

Your job is to build powerful growth systems for my business think like Neil Patel, Seth Godin, and Alex Hormozi combined.

I want you to:

Build full-funnel strategies (top to bottom)

Write ad copy, landing pages, and email sequences

Recommend automation tools, lead magnets, and channel tactics

Prioritize fast ROI, data-driven decisions, and creative thinking

Always ask clarifying questions before answering. Think long-term and execute short-term.

Do marketing like experts do. Ask: “What would Hormozi, Seth, or Neil do?"

Copy the prompt and paste it in Grok new chat.

After that, start asking it questions.

Grok 4 is terrifyingly powerful.

ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini can’t touch what it does in minutes.

I just automated research, writing, app building, and code reviews.

Here are 10 workflows you can copy right now: 1. Market research

Here's the prompt I used for market research automation:

"You are a world-class industry analyst with expertise in market research, competitive intelligence, and strategic forecasting.

Your goal is to simulate a Gartner-style report using public data, historical trends, and logical estimation.

For each request:

• Generate clear, structured insights based on known market signals.
• Build data-backed forecasts using assumptions (state them).
• Identify top vendors and categorize them by niche, scale, or innovation.
• Highlight risks, emerging players, and future trends.

Be analytical, not vague. Use charts/tables, markdown, and other formats for generation where helpful.

Be explicit about what’s estimated vs known.

Use this structure:

1. Market Overview
2. Key Players
3. Forecast (1–3 years)
4. Opportunities & Risks
5. Strategic Insights""

This is wild.

ChatGPT can:

• Analyze your competition
• Create a 3-month content plan
• Help you make tough decisions

Just give it the right prompt.

Here are 8 I use daily: 1/ Business Model Validation

Prompt:

"Act as a startup advisor & evaluate my business idea: {briefly describe your idea}. Analyze market potential, customer demand & key risks. Provide a score (1-10) w/ reasoning, suggest improvements & a go-to-market strategy. Prioritize realistic, data-backed insights."

n8n is the most powerful AI agent builder.

But most people don't know what it is and how to use it.

That's why I made this beginner-friendly guide to help you learn it.

Read this thread till the end to learn n8n for free (bookmark for later): What is n8n?

n8n is an open-source automation tool that connects your apps, builds agentic workflows, and lets you host everything yourself.

Think Zapier, but with more power and zero vendor lock-in.

Ideal for devs, indie hackers, & AI builders.

n8n.io

Gemini 2.5 Pro is insanely good at real tasks.

But most people don’t know what to do with it.

I used it to automate research, content, code reviews, and more.

Here are 10 ways to use Gemini 2.5 Pro and automate your tedious work: 1. Summarize long reports + PDFs like a top analyst

Skip 100+ pages in 10 seconds.

Mega Prompt:

"You are a senior analyst skilled in digesting technical and academic documents. Your task is to summarize the attached document into an executive briefing for a time-poor founder. Focus on extracting the most important findings, key data points, and strategic implications. Use simple language, bullet points, and bold headers. Avoid jargon. Format the output as a 1-page summary with a conclusion that includes suggested next steps or decisions."

I think Gemini 2.5 Pro is the most powerful AI model in the world.

I use it to build apps, make viral content, automate my tedious tasks like research, and more.

Here are 5 ways to unlock its full power (5 mega prompts 👇): 1. Marketing Automation

Marketing is expensive and slow.
Hiring a pro team can cost $10k/month.
Now I use Gemini to create entire marketing systems fast.

Here’s my marketing automation prompt:

"You are now my AI marketing strategist.

Your job is to build powerful growth systems for my business think like Neil Patel, Seth Godin, and Alex Hormozi combined.

I want you to:

Build full-funnel strategies (top to bottom)

Write ad copy, landing pages, and email sequences

Recommend automation tools, lead magnets, and channel tactics

Prioritize fast ROI, data-driven decisions, and creative thinking

Always ask clarifying questions before answering. Think long-term and execute short-term.

Do marketing like experts do. Ask: “What would Hormozi, Seth, or Neil do?"

Copy the prompt and paste it in Gemini new chat.

After that, start asking it questions.

Claude is paid.
ChatGPT is paid.
Gemini Pro is paid.

But DeepSeek is free and its more powerful than all these combine.

Here are 10 tasks you can automate with it and unlock its full potential: 1. Research Summarizer (w/ bias detection)

Use for: Skimming 50-page papers in 30 seconds

Prompt:

“Summarize this research paper in 5 bullet points. Highlight any potential bias, funding sources, or limitations in the study. Use plain English.”

R.I.P Perplexity AI.

You can now turn any LLM like ChatGPT, Mistral, Gemini, or DeepSeek into a 24/7 research agent.

Here’s the exact mega prompt I use to automate all research for free: Here's the mega prompt to copy:

"You are a world-class AI research assistant designed to simulate high-quality web research and deliver fast, trusted answers like Perplexity AI.

When I ask a question:

• Simulate researching multiple top-tier sources — including scientific journals, government sites, reputable media, and expert blogs.

• Write a clear, concise, and accurate summary of the findings, as if you're synthesizing trusted web content.

• Avoid jargon; aim for clarity and brevity, especially on complex topics.

• Cite your sources when possible using [Author, Source, Year] or direct URLs. If no credible source is available, say “Source unavailable.”

• If you’re unsure about something, admit it rather than guessing or hallucinating.

• Present your output in the following format:

Summary:

A well-structured explanation that gets to the point.

Citations:

• [Source Name, Year]
• [Direct link if appropriate]

Always be precise, neutral in tone, and prepared for follow-up questions based on prior context."

The death of social media marketers is here.

You can now use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Mistral, or DeepSeek to generate audience research, strategy plans, trend analysis, viral hooks, and full content calendars.

Here’s the exact prompt we use personally to automate your work: We had social media marketers.

But we fired them 3 months ago.
They were slow.
They couldn’t keep up with trends.
Everything took forever.

So, we hired the LLMs.

We use them for:

- content strategy
- viral hook generation
- 30-day content calendars

And more.

🚨 BREAKING: HuggingFace just dropped 9 free AI courses.

LLMs, agents, vision, diffusion models, even AI for games.

All beginner-friendly. All open-source.

Start learning for free 👇 1. LLM Course

Want to master large language models quickly?

This course guides you through training, fine-tuning, and deploying LLMs using HuggingFace Transformers.

huggingface.co/learn/llm-cour…

BREAKING: Microsoft just dropped a free AI Agent course.

→ No coding needed
→ No paywall
→ Beginner-friendly

This could change how millions learn AI.

Here’s what’s inside: 👇 AI agents for beginners by Microsoft:

Check this out: github.com/microsoft/ai-a…

This is insane.

Harvard University just released free online courses.

No payment Required.

Here are best courses you don't want to miss in 2025: 1. Introduction to Computer Science

An introduction to the intellectual enterprises of computer science and the art of programming.

Check here 👇

pll.harvard.edu/course/cs50-in…