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Hey there! I’m Matt Wolfe, and I want to share with you some of the best tips, tricks, and powerful prompt strategies for ChatGPT that I’ve been using in 2025. Whether you want to boost your productivity, learn new skills, improve your mental health, or just simplify your life and business, this guide will help you become a ChatGPT pro.

Over time, the way we interact with ChatGPT has evolved, and today I’m diving deep into what works right now. I’ll show you how I personally use ChatGPT through projects, share some life-changing prompts, and even reveal some advanced prompt engineering techniques that most people don’t know about. Plus, I’ll include some handy cheat codes and clever hacks to make your prompting smoother and more effective.

So, buckle up! This is your ultimate guide to mastering ChatGPT prompts in 2025.

Table of Contents 📚

Best Practices for Prompting Like a Pro 🧠

First off, let’s talk about the basics of how to get the best responses from ChatGPT. The key is in how you give your prompt. Here are some tips that really make a difference:

  • Be specific about the output format. Tell ChatGPT exactly how you want the answer. For example, ask for a checklist, a table, JSON format, or even a YouTube script. If you want an article summarised, say “Give this to me as a checklist,” and it will summarise accordingly.
  • Assign a role or character. You can ask ChatGPT to act as a financial advisor, an expert health coach, or even a drunken pirate! This makes the responses tailored and fun.
  • Give detailed instructions. For example, instead of “Give me ideas,” say “Give me five video title ideas under 50 characters that focus on FOMO.” The more specific you are, the better the output.
  • Use iteration loops. This is where you ask ChatGPT to write a rough draft, then critique its own draft, and then improve it based on the critique — all in one prompt. This leads to much better and polished results.

To sum it up, clear, detailed, and structured prompts yield the best results. Don’t be afraid to experiment with the format and the role you assign.

ChatGPT best practices for prompt engineering

How I Personally Use ChatGPT: Projects and Custom Instructions 🗂

One of my favourite ways to use ChatGPT is through projects. Think of a project as a special folder where you keep related chats, files, and custom instructions that shape how ChatGPT responds. Here’s how I use it:

  • Create a project for each big area. For example, I have projects for “New Video Game,” “Journal,” “Health Coach,” “Investment Advisor,” and “Explain This For Me.”
  • Add custom instructions to each project. These instructions set the role and context. For example, in my video game project, I tell ChatGPT: “You are an expert game designer and developer, inspired by rogue-like games, and a world-class coder.” This way, every prompt I give within this project follows these guidelines.
  • Add files for extra context. You can upload documents, images, or code files that ChatGPT can use to give better answers.
  • Keep your projects organised. Every new prompt within a project remembers the context and builds on previous chats, making it much easier to work on complex tasks over time.

Let me give you a quick example from my game design project. I asked ChatGPT to help design a colourful game based on wolves and monkeys. It came up with Wolf and Monkey Primal Clash, a rogue-lite action brawler where you switch between a wild wolf and a clever monkey to traverse procedurally generated jungle arenas. Each character has a unique playstyle, and you can merge them into a hybrid for powerful attacks. Pretty cool, right?

Custom instructions for ChatGPT project on game design

Projects are also great for personal growth. My journal project lets me brain dump thoughts and struggles. I’ve set it up as a journaling assistant that listens, offers advice, and gives tough love when needed. Because I included personal details like my work, family, and past struggles, it can give personalised and meaningful feedback every time I write.

Similarly, my health coach project helps me with workout plans, meal routines, and supplement advice. It knows my schedule, equipment, eating habits, and even my busy family life, so it tailors everything to fit me perfectly.

Health coach project with custom instructions and personalised advice

Finally, my “Explain This For Me” project is a lifesaver for simplifying complex articles and research papers. I ask it to give me a high-level summary, bulleted key points, analogies, and even a quick one-minute soundbite explaining why the news matters. This helps me prepare my weekend news videos quickly and clearly.

Simplifying complex articles with ChatGPT project

Prompts That Simplify Life and Business ✂

Now, let’s get practical. Here are some prompts that can make your daily life and business easier. These come from some great resources like Jenna Kutcher’s article on life-saving ChatGPT prompts.

Prompt Purpose Example Output
List three powerful wellness habits for better sleep, digestion, and mental clarity. Break them into morning, midday, and evening routines for a busy person. Keep it under five minutes. Quick wellness routines for busy people
  • Morning: Hydration, light stretching, mindfulness (2-5 mins each)
  • Midday: Movement breaks, deep breathing, healthy snacks
  • Evening: Reduce screen time, light reading, gentle yoga
Take this story and turn it into a 10-slide carousel with a story arc, a caption that opens with a strong hook, and a story sequence with built-in engagement prompts. Create social media content quickly
  • Slide 1: Hook – “OpenAI plus UK government, a bold AI power play”
  • Slides 2-9: Details, impact, big names, jobs, bigger picture
  • Slide 10: Call to action

Another great hack is to ask ChatGPT for recipes without all the fluff. Instead of scrolling through long articles, you can ask for a direct recipe, such as “Give me a recipe for amazing ribs cooked on my Traeger grill.” If you enable web search, it will pull fresh recipes from the web and give you a clean, straightforward recipe.

Trust me, these simplified prompts save a ton of time!

Prompts That Upgrade Your Hobbies & Skills 🎯

Want to get better at a hobby or skill? ChatGPT can help you create structured learning plans and quiz you to lock in knowledge. Here are two prompts I love, inspired by a Tom’s Guide article:

  1. Write me a 30-day plan for whatever hobby you want to learn.
    For example, I asked for a 30-day plan to improve my aerial drone photography skills. It broke it down into weekly themes like learning FAA rules, composition, advanced techniques, and portfolio prep. Each day has a clear task, and there’s a gear checklist and tips too.
  2. Quiz me on the history of AI.
    This helps reinforce what you learn. ChatGPT asks questions, then provides an answer key so you can test yourself. For example, it asked about the 1950 paper by Alan Turing, the 1956 Dartmouth workshop, and the 1966 chatbot Eliza.

30-day plan for aerial drone photography

These prompts are a fantastic way to turn ChatGPT into your personal tutor and practice partner.

Critical Thinking Prompts That Reveal Blind Spots 🤔

ChatGPT isn’t just for simple tasks — it can help you think deeply and challenge your assumptions. Here are some prompts that I use regularly to sharpen my thinking:

  • I believe [blank]. What hidden assumptions am I making? What evidence might contradict this?
    For fun, I tried “I believe the Earth is round.” ChatGPT listed assumptions like trusting mainstream physics and sensory cues, and then presented flat earth arguments with their rebuttals. It even explained why the globe model still wins.
  • If you were trying to convince me this is a terrible idea, what would be your most compelling arguments?
    I asked it to discourage me from building and selling a video game on Steam. It pointed out the fierce competition, low revenue for most games, marketing challenges, and costs. Then I asked for counterarguments to see the other side. This helps me weigh decisions better.
  • What might be the unexpected second and third order consequences of [a decision]?
    For example, I asked about selling my website “Future Tools.” ChatGPT identified risks like loss of credibility, newsletter growth stalling, reputational damage, and SEO challenges. It also gave gut check questions to consider before selling.

Critical thinking prompts to reveal hidden assumptions and consequences

These prompts are invaluable for anyone making big decisions or trying to see things from all angles.

Secret ChatGPT Modes: Cheat Codes from Reddit 🎮

Here’s a little secret from the ChatGPT community: there are quick cheat codes you can use inside ChatGPT to speed up your prompting. These come from a Reddit post by “stuck in good.”

Cheat Code Meaning Example
ELI5 Explain Like I’m 5 (simple explanation) “Quantum computing ELI5” gives a very simple explanation anyone can understand.
TLDR Summarise long text “Article about AI TLDR” returns a brief summary.
Jargonize Add technical jargon “Quantum computing jargonize” outputs a technical, expert-level explanation.
Humanize Make text less technical and more conversational “Quantum computing humanize” simplifies jargon for everyday people.
Feynman Technique Teach complex topics simply, test understanding, then refine “Teach me quantum computing using the Feynman technique” breaks down the topic step-by-step.

ChatGPT cheat codes from Reddit for faster prompting

These cheat codes are super handy shortcuts. Instead of typing long instructions, just add these keywords to your prompt and get the style you want immediately.

Advanced Prompt Engineering Techniques ⚙

Now for the big guns. These techniques take your ChatGPT experience to the next level. They focus on logical thinking, exploring multiple possibilities, and self-improvement of responses.

Tree of Thought Exploration 🌳

This technique makes ChatGPT explore several possible solutions or ideas before picking the best one. For example, I asked it to solve “job loss due to AI” by exploring three distinct solution branches:

Branch Idea Quality Score (0-10) Summary
1 Upskill in time with lifelong learning ecosystem 9 Focus on retraining workers with micro-credentials and wage subsidies.
2 AI dividend with universal basic income and tax reform 6 Redistribute AI productivity gains via UBI but politically challenging.
3 Work sharing and productivity dividend 7 Reduce workweek hours as AI boosts productivity.

After ranking, it chose branch 1 as the best solution, explaining its strengths and weaknesses in detail. This method is brilliant for tackling complex problems by considering multiple angles.

Tree of thought exploration for job loss due to AI

Self-Consistency Voting 🗳

This one asks ChatGPT to generate multiple independent answers to a question, then vote on the best one. For example, I asked it how to train AI without stealing creators’ work. It generated five different reasoning paths and voted for the majority view: only train on publicly licensed or public domain data and compensate creators fairly.

This technique ensures the answer is robust and well thought out.

Self-consistency voting prompt example

Reflection & Self-Critique Loop 🔄

Here, ChatGPT drafts an answer, then critiques its own response for flaws or gaps, and finally improves the answer. For example, I asked “What is responsible for climate change?” It first gave a basic answer, then pointed out missing citations, oversimplifications, and missing equity context. Then it produced a much more detailed, accurate, and nuanced final answer.

This method is great for getting thorough, high-quality responses.

Reflection and self critique loop for climate change

Automation-Workflow Finder 🤖

This prompt turns ChatGPT into a senior automation consultant. It asks you diagnostic questions about repetitive tasks in your job or life, ranks the top automation opportunities, suggests tools, and gives a step-by-step plan to implement automation.

For example, it identified my top five automation chances like video ideation, sponsor follow-ups, automated news feeds, and creative memory management. It then recommended tools and workflows to make these tasks easier.

Automation workflow finder prompt example

Creative Mode: Build Your Own World 🌍

Finally, you can turn ChatGPT into a world engine to create interactive stories or games. You give it a genre like solarpunk mystery, and it will narrate scenes, maintain a dynamic world state, and offer branching choices. Your decisions influence the story’s direction, making it like a text-based game.

I tried a solarpunk mystery where I had to choose between reporting to an archivist, exploring ruins, or confronting enemies. The story adapts and remembers your choices as you play.

ChatGPT world engine interactive story

Final Thoughts 🎉

These are some of the coolest ChatGPT tricks, prompts, and strategies I’ve discovered and used myself. This list isn’t exhaustive, but it should give you tons of ideas to experiment with and improve your ChatGPT experience.

Whether you want to simplify your life, make better decisions, automate workflows, or just have fun with creative storytelling, there’s a prompt or technique here for you. The key is to be specific, iterate, and use projects to keep your work organised and personalised.

Thanks so much for nerding out with me over ChatGPT today! I hope you found this guide helpful and that it sparks new ideas for your own AI journey.

FAQ ❓

What are the best practices for writing prompts to ChatGPT?

Be specific about the output format, assign a role or character, give detailed instructions, and use iteration loops where the model critiques and improves its own responses.

How do projects in ChatGPT help me?

Projects let you organise chats with custom instructions and files, keeping context consistent. This makes complex tasks easier and more personalised.

Can ChatGPT help with mental health or therapy?

ChatGPT can guide you through minor therapy exercises like cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques, but it’s not a replacement for a professional therapist.

What are some quick cheat codes to use with ChatGPT?

Use shortcuts like ELI5 (Explain Like I’m 5), TLDR (Summarise), Jargonize (Add technical language), Humanize (Simplify language), and Feynman Technique (Teach and test understanding).

What is tree of thought exploration in ChatGPT?

It’s a prompt engineering strategy where ChatGPT explores multiple solution branches for a problem, evaluates them, and selects the best one with justification.

How can I automate repetitive tasks using ChatGPT?

Use the automation-workflow finder prompt, which asks diagnostic questions, ranks automation opportunities, suggests tools, and provides a step-by-step plan.

Feel free to start experimenting with these prompts and techniques to unlock the full power of ChatGPT in your daily life and work!

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the world faster than ever. If you want to be ahead in 2025, it is important to understand the key skills that will help you use AI effectively. This article shares a complete guide to the essential AI skills in 2025, from beginner to advanced levels. It is based on insights from Tina Huang, an ex-Meta data scientist and AI educator, who breaks down complex AI concepts into simple, practical ideas.

By the end of this article, you will have a clear understanding of AI basics, how to craft powerful prompts, what AI agents are, how to use AI for coding (called vibe coding), and what to expect in the near future of AI. Let’s dive in!

Introduction to AI skills for 2025

🤖 AI Basics & Terminologies

Before exploring advanced AI skills, it is important to understand what AI really means. Artificial Intelligence refers to computer programs that can perform tasks usually done by humans. These tasks include things like understanding language, recognising images, or making decisions.

AI has been around for a long time. Traditional AI, often called machine learning, powers tools like Google Search algorithms or YouTube’s recommendation system. These systems analyse data and help deliver personalised results. But the AI we hear about most today is generative AI.

Generative AI is a special kind that can create new content. It can write text, draw images, produce audio, or even generate video. This is a huge leap from older AI that only analysed data.

The most famous generative AI models are Large Language Models (LLMs). These models can read and produce human-like text. Examples include:

  • GPT family by OpenAI
  • Gemini by Google
  • Claude models by Anthropic

Many modern models are multimodal, meaning they can work with text, images, audio, and video all together. For instance, GPT-4o and Gemini 2.5 Pro are multimodal models.

Understanding these key terms helps you keep up with AI developments and use AI tools effectively.

Multimodal AI models example

Quick Quiz: AI Basics

Try answering these questions to test your understanding:

  1. What is generative AI?
  2. Name three examples of large language models.
  3. What does multimodal AI mean?

Share your answers in the comments!

✍ Prompt Engineering: The Skill That Unlocks AI

Prompting is the art of giving clear instructions to AI models to get useful results. It is the most valuable skill you can learn when working with AI. No matter how advanced the AI is, if you don’t know how to communicate with it, you won’t get the best results.

Prompting can involve text, images, audio, video, or even code. For beginners, a great way to start is by picking your favourite AI chatbot — like ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude — and practising prompts.

Two powerful frameworks can help you craft better prompts:

Mnemonic Meaning Description
Tiny Crabs Ride Enormous Iguanas Task, Context, Resources, Evaluate, Iterate A step-by-step way to build and improve your prompt.
Ramen Saves Tragic Idiots Revisit, Separate, Try, Introduce Constraints Advanced techniques to refine your prompt for better results.

How to Use the Tiny Crabs Ride Enormous Iguanas Framework

  1. Task: Define what you want the AI to do. For example, “Create an Instagram post to market my new octopus merch line.”
  2. Context: Provide background information like company details, launch dates, and target audience. For example, “Our company is Lonely Octopus, targeting working professionals aged 20-40.”
  3. Resources: Supply examples or references that the AI can imitate, such as other IG posts you like.
  4. Evaluate: Check if the output meets your needs. If not, note what needs improvement.
  5. Iterate: Adjust your prompt and try again. Prompting is an iterative process to get the best results.

Adding a persona or specifying the output format can improve results. For example, ask the AI to “act as an expert IG influencer” or to “start the caption with a fun fact about octopi.”

Prompting framework steps

Refining Prompts with Ramen Saves Tragic Idiots

If your prompt isn’t working well, try this advanced framework:

  • Revisit: Go back to the Tiny Crabs framework and add or remove details.
  • Separate: Break your prompt into shorter, clearer sentences instead of one long block of text.
  • Try: Use different phrasing or analogies. For example, instead of “Help me write a speech,” say “Help me write a story illustrating my main point.”
  • Introduce Constraints: Limit the output with rules. For example, “Only include country music in my road trip playlist.”

Advanced prompting techniques

Why Prompting Will Never Be Obsolete

Prompting is the glue holding AI applications together. It is crucial not just for simple chatbots but also for advanced AI agents and coding tools. Improving your prompting skills will give you a big advantage in getting consistent and precise results from AI.

For a deep dive into prompting, check out Google’s prompting course and use prompt generators from OpenAI, Gemini, and Anthropic to help you get started.

🤖 AI Agents: Your AI Helpers

AI agents are software programs that use AI to complete tasks or pursue goals on your behalf. Think of them as AI versions of specific roles, like a customer service agent or a coding assistant.

For example, a customer service AI agent can read an email saying “I forgot my password” and reply with the right instructions, referencing the company’s password reset page. While AI agents are not perfect yet, they can handle common queries autonomously.

Similarly, a coding agent can write the first version of a web application based on your instructions. You still need to refine and add features, but the agent can generate a working MVP (Minimum Viable Product).

AI agents examples

What Makes Up an AI Agent?

OpenAI lists six key components of an AI agent:

Component Description
AI Model The brain that powers reasoning and decision-making.
Tools Interfaces the agent uses to perform actions, e.g., email access.
Knowledge & Memory Access to databases and the ability to remember past interactions.
Audio & Speech Allows natural language conversation in multiple languages.
Guardrails Safety systems to prevent harmful or unintended behaviour.
Orchestration Processes for deploying, monitoring, and improving agents.

Components of AI agents

Building AI Agents

There are many tools for building AI agents, including no-code, low-code, and coding frameworks:

  • No-code/Low-code: Any to End for general use, Gum Loop for enterprise.
  • Coding SDKs: OpenAI’s Agents SDK, Google’s ADK, and Anthropic’s Claude Code SDK.

These tools keep evolving, but the fundamental knowledge of agent components and protocols remains valuable. Understanding these basics prepares you for future developments.

Multi-agent systems are also becoming popular. Instead of one agent doing everything, multiple agents with specific roles work together, similar to how a company has different departments. This approach reduces confusion and improves efficiency.

Anthropic’s MCP (Modular Control Protocol) standardises how agents access tools and knowledge, like a universal USB plug for AI agents. This makes connecting agents to various APIs and databases much easier.

Multi-agent systems and MCP protocol

Real-World Use Case: Retool’s AI Agents Platform

Retool recently launched an enterprise-grade AI agent development platform that connects AI agents to real business systems. Unlike simple demos, Retool’s platform allows agents to read and write to databases, take real actions, and includes features like performance tracking and access control.

For example, the University of Texas Medical Branch increased their diagnostic capacity by ten times using Retool plus AI. Over 10,000 companies already use Retool, showing the power of practical AI agent implementation.

Retool AI agent platform for businesses

💻 Vibe Coding: AI-Assisted Application Building

Vibe coding is a new way to build software by fully trusting AI to write the code based on your instructions. Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI, described vibe coding as “embracing exponentials and forgetting that the code even exists.”

Instead of writing code yourself, you tell the AI what you want to build, and it handles the implementation. For example, you can ask an AI to create a React web app called “Daily Vibes” where users select moods from emojis and write notes. The AI will generate the full app code for you.

Example of vibe coding a React app

Five-Step Framework for Successful Vibe Coding

To vibe code effectively and avoid losing your work or producing unusable apps, follow this mnemonic: Tiny Ferrets Carry Dangerous Code, which stands for:

Step Description
Thinking Plan carefully what you want to build, ideally with a Product Requirements Document (PRD).
Frameworks Choose the right tools and frameworks (React, Tailwind, Three.js) for your project.
Checkpoints Use version control (e.g., Git) to save your progress and avoid losing work.
Debugging Be patient fixing errors, guiding AI with error messages and screenshots.
Context Provide AI with as much context as possible, including mockups and examples.

Five-step vibe coding framework

Key Tips for Vibe Coding

  • Plan your product: Write a PRD to define your audience, features, and technology stack.
  • Ask AI for framework advice: If unsure, ask AI what tools to use for your project type.
  • Use version control: Always save your code regularly to avoid losing work.
  • Debug methodically: Copy error messages into AI and provide visual context for UI bugs.
  • Iterate feature by feature: Build your app step-by-step rather than all at once.

Tools for Vibe Coding

There is a wide range of tools depending on your coding experience:

Skill Level Tools Description
Beginner Lovable, Lead Zero, Bolt No coding background needed, very user-friendly.
Intermediate Replit, Firebase Studio Shows code base, allows some coding and no-code switching.
Advanced Windsurf, Cursor IDE-based coding with AI assistance, local machine setup.
Expert Cloud Code (command line tools) Full control in terminal, requires strong coding skills.

Tools spectrum for vibe coding

🔮 The Future of AI: What to Expect in 2025 and Beyond

The AI world moves incredibly fast. Instead of years or months, progress is measured in weeks. Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, likens it to being strapped to a rocket where time and space warp, speeding everything up.

Trying to keep up with every new model, tool, or update can be overwhelming. Instead, focus on the underlying trends shaping the future of AI.

Three Major Trends in AI for 2025

Trend Description Impact
Integration into Workflows AI is being built into existing tools and products to improve user experience and reduce costs. More efficient processes and smarter products.
AI-Assisted Coding (Vibe Coding) Lower barrier to building software, with tools for beginners to experts. Faster development and innovation.
Growth of AI Agents More personalised, 24/7 AI agents reducing costs and improving service. New business models and startups based on AI agents.

For example, Google integrates AI deeply into their products, improving workflows and productivity. Developers who learn command line AI tools like Cloud Code will gain a big advantage. AI agents will continue to grow, with many SaaS companies expected to have AI agent counterparts.

Future AI trends overview

❓ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

What is generative AI?

Generative AI is a type of AI that creates new content, such as text, images, audio, or video, instead of just analysing existing data.

Why is prompting so important?

Prompting is how you communicate with AI. Good prompts get better results, making prompting the most valuable skill when using AI tools.

What are AI agents?

AI agents are software programs that perform tasks or achieve goals for users, like customer service or coding assistants.

What is vibe coding?

Vibe coding is building software by telling AI what to create, letting the AI write the code for you.

How can I start learning AI skills for 2025?

Begin by understanding AI basics, practising prompt engineering, exploring AI agents, and trying out vibe coding tools. Building a strong foundation will prepare you for rapid changes ahead.

🚀 Conclusion

AI is transforming quickly, and 2025 will be a pivotal year for mastering essential AI skills. From understanding the basics of AI and generative models, to crafting effective prompts, building AI agents, and embracing vibe coding, these skills will empower you to harness AI’s full potential.

Remember, the key is not just knowing about AI but applying it well. Practice prompting regularly, explore building agents, and experiment with vibe coding tools. Keep your focus on fundamental principles and the big trends rather than every new update.

With dedication, you can be part of the 1% who truly understand and use AI effectively by 2025. Good luck on your AI journey!

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