I genuinely think most people are using AI wrong. Not because they’re bad at prompting. But because they st ill talk to AI like they’re emailing a coworker. Now suggest me something, a strong hook or strong title of this entire post for the school community. Make sure it is ultra realistic, very very very very strong, very controversial, and click-worthy. “Can you help me with this?” “Here’s some context…” “Maybe improve this a little?” I used to do the same thing. Then I started testing something really small: starting every prompt with a command instead of a request. And weirdly… the outputs became dramatically better. Cleaner. Sharper. Less generic. Less “AI sounding.” I tested around 30–35 of these command-style prompts while working on scripts, strategy docs, content ideas, summaries, research, all of it. The biggest thing I noticed wasn’t even speed. It was clarity. The AI stopped guessing what I wanted. For example: Instead of writing: “Can you summarize this for me in a simple way?” I started writing: `/EXEC SUMMARY` Instead of: “Can you make this actionable?” I wrote: `/CHECKLIST` Instead of: “Think deeper about this and tell me what could go wrong…” I wrote: `/PITFALLS` That one small shift changes the entire response. Because now the model knows the job before it reads the task. That’s the important part most people miss. The shortcut sets the mode. The prompt gives the material. And honestly, once you notice this, long polite prompts start feeling inefficient. Almost like opening 6 tabs to do something that needed one keyboard shortcut. Some of the ones I now use constantly: • `/FIRST PRINCIPLES` → break it down fundamentally • `/NO AUTOPILOT` → remove generic filler • `/STEP-BY-STEP` → make it executable • `/AUDIENCE: BEGINNER` → simplify properly • `/BIAS CHECK` → challenge assumptions • `/TLDL` → compress aggressively The crazy part is… this doesn’t just improve AI output. It changes how you think. You stop “asking AI for help.”

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