mAIn Street #198: Why Anthropic Accidentally Leaked Its Source Code; Journalists Issue Warning About AI; Gmail AI Inbox in Action
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I've been building and refining AI prompts for the past year, testing them across ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. After going through 500+ prompts across copywriting, coding, marketing, business strategy, and more, I wanted to share the ones that consistently deliver the best results. Here are my top 15 (organized by cat...
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Most prompt advice is about writing faster or thinking bigger. These are for the situations that actually make you uncomfortable at work. When someone goes quiet on you: "Write a follow-up message to someone who hasn't responded in 5 days.
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I started using AI tools to save time. And for the first few weeks, I genuinely did. Then I noticed I was working longer than before, sending messages during lunch because "it only takes a second to prompt it real quick," staying online later because the friction of starting a task had disappeared.
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