OCTOBER 15, 2025

• PromptCraft: Return-to-work prompt; Plus, a YouTube Script Generator and Prompt Architecture vs. Prompt Engineering
• NewsDive: The Right Way to 'Cut Jobs' with AI​
• THE HEADLINES: Newsom signs AI safety bill, vetoes one following pushback; AI and learning from social media mistakes; New healthcare report on AI released; 4 things to determine whether we're in an AI bubble
• Tool Spotlight: Scaloom Turns Reddit Into a LeadGen Machine

Return-to-work prompt; Plus, a YouTube Script Generator and Prompt Architecture vs. Prompt Engineering

• Return-to-work plan prompt for Sunday Scaries: A “Work-Life Balance Coach” prompt that builds a phased re-entry plan—pre-return prep, first day, first week, first month—plus manager/colleague scripts and burnout safeguards. Paste, personalize trip details and challenges, and generate a gentle on-ramp back to work.
• YouTube script generator prompt (Hook–Intro–Body–Outro): Copy-paste template to draft full video scripts with tone, target audience, runtime, timestamps, at least one story example, and clear CTAs. Helpful for consistent scripting pipelines that move smoothly from outline to production.
• Prompt Architecture: building coherence through structure: An essay proposing layered prompt systems—observer loops, “crucible” self-critique, and recursive convergence—to reduce drift and shape reasoning. Treats prompts as environments with roles, limits, and review cycles rather than one-off instructions.

The Right Way to 'Cut Jobs' with AI

ChatGPT became a household word in 2023. Since then, fears of job loss and the inevitability it will happen have lurked around the corner like a masked killer waiting to dispatch horny teens in a cheesy ‘80s slasher film.

Currently, there are mixed signals as to whether it’s happening. Major companies have announced thousands of cuts over the last few months, but a recent Yale study says not so fast.

According to Yale’s Budget Lab, widespread anxiety about AI’s effect on the job market is largely speculative. Researchers analyzed labor data since ChatGPT’s launch and found no significant evidence of major disruption.

For starters, the share of the workforce for jobs with high, middle, or low exposure to AI has not changed significantly.

The rate of change in the labor market due to AI is comparable to the periods when computers and the internet were first introduced, suggesting it isn’t more disruptive.

And recent college graduates are entering a job market with a similar occupational mix as older generations did at the same age.

One possible factor influencing the currently “soft” job market and elimination of early-career positions, the study’s authors noted, is the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes “ending an era of cheap capital.”

While acknowledging that some CEOs may be laying off workers due to AI hype, the study maintains that it is too soon to tell how disruptive the technology will ultimately be.

Personally, I don’t know if I’m buying it.

It feels risky to admit this, but I’m already accomplishing more in two hours than I used to in an entire workday thanks to AI.

Some formerly hourlong tasks I’ve all but eliminated!

The change has happened virtually overnight, and that’s not a lot of time to rethink what I should be doing with the 8- to 10-hour daily work expectations of the old job market.

I think what’s happening is that some employers are so excited by time savings like this that they’re cutting people instead of rethinking the role that person occupies.

A role is different from a job. The role oversees the job. The job is a collection of tasks.

No one knows that collection of tasks better than the person in that role. When you eliminate the role before you understand the tasks connected to it, you’re ripping a hole in the fabric of your company without realizing it.

It’s true that some jobs should be cut.

There’s a school of thought that says a job that can be automated should be automated. When you subscribe to the distinction I’ve just laid out, I’d say that’s fair.

I mean, you wouldn’t still use an accountant who only uses pen and paper, would you? But the role of an accountant is so much more than that.

You wouldn’t get rid of the role, but hopefully you would want to get rid of the outdated tasks tied to it.

As our tools progress, they’re going to eliminate some tasks. And if every task tied to that role is able to be eliminated, then what’s the point of keeping it?

That’s peak inefficiency.

But the last people who should be making that call are the ones furthest away from the frontlines. Yes, that means “the higher-ups.”

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