SEPTEMBER 9, 2025

• PromptCraft: Job-hunting with ChatGPT; Beginner resources to learn prompting; and a 'Social Algorithm Hacker' prompt
• A Simple Trick to See How ‘AI Ready’ You Are for the Workforce​
• THE HEADLINES
• Tool Spotlight: Receiptor 2.0 Promises Bookkeeping on Autopilot

Job-hunting with ChatGPT; Beginner resources to learn prompting; and a 'Social Algorithm Hacker' prompt

• ​Set up a ChatGPT finance project (UK): OP asks how to configure a ChatGPT “Project” for personal finances—budgeting, debt tracking, spare-cash decisions, and beginner investing—plus what files to upload or avoid. Useful thread to crib setup checklists and safety considerations.
• ​Job hunting with ChatGPT: workflows and gaps: Post reviewing how ChatGPT helped a relocation job search—resume tailoring, application throughput—while noting limitations like site logins/search. Thread surfaces workarounds and practical prompting for applications, profiles, and interview prep.
• ​Regex explainer and generator workflow: Tip thread showing how to paste a gnarly regex and have ChatGPT explain each token, propose simpler equivalents, and test against sample strings. Treat it like a regex tutor/debugger to reduce trial-and-error.
• ​Beginner resources for learning ChatGPT prompts: Request for free, beginner-friendly training on prompting and best practices. Good place to mine community-vetted intros, guides, and starter frameworks without paywalls or upsells.
• ​‘Social Algorithm Hacker’ prompt lesson: A structured prompt that treats AI as a “social algorithm reverse engineer” to analyze how platform dynamics shape offline interactions. Includes role, instructions, required outputs (detection, debugging), and a cyberpunk-style narrative wrapper.
• ​‘Prompting vs. Relating’: conversational approach matters: Opinion thread arguing results improve when you build continuity and “relate” to the model—less nagging, more collaborative expectations—versus vending-machine prompting. Takeaway: Establish style and goals; you’ll often reduce boilerplate behaviors.

A Simple Trick to See How ‘AI Ready’ You Are for the Workforce

Another One of Those ‘Given Everything You Know About Me’ Prompts

The one feature that has kept me at ChatGPT for longer than any other is the ability to draw insights from all your chats from the dawn of time (aka when you opened your account).

That has led to a rise in “Given Everything You Know About Me” prompts. Today, I used it to figure out where I fall in this whole AI Skills race.

I set the model to “5 Thinking” for the best results.

After 1 minute, 41 seconds, the session generated a report that labeled my AI Skills Preparedness at 84/100.

“You’re operating in the top ~10–15% of practical AI operators I see ,” the Chat read, “especially for communication-heavy roles. The gap between you and a 90+ is mostly automation depth, eval discipline, and monetization systems, not raw skill or judgment.

That was the overview. The whole report is impressive, and you can check it out here.

What I really like about it is how it breaks the overall score down into several subdisciplines, scored on a scale of 1–10. I had a lot of 8s and 9s, but I’m the type who likes to spot my weaknesses, so I gravitated towards anything below 8.

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HIGHLIGHTS: WB Sues Midjourney; Anthropic Agrees to Pay Authors $1.5 Billion; What Causes Hallucinations?; and Atlassian Bets On AI B

• ​Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion to settle lawsuit over pirated books used to train AI chatbots​
• ​ASML becomes Mistral AI’s top shareholder after leading the latest funding round, sources say​
• ​OpenAI expects business to burn $115 billion through 2029, The Information reports​
• ​Why language models hallucinate​
• ​Are bad incentives to blame for AI hallucinations?​
• ​The Race to Build a Distributed GPU Runtime​
• ​Qwen3-Max arrives in preview with 1 trillion parameters, blazing fast response speed, and API availability​
• ​Updating restrictions on sales to unsupported regions​
• ​Impact of chatbots on mental health is a warning over the future of AI, expert says​
• ​OpenAI reorganizes research team behind ChatGPT’s personality​
• ​Google AI Mode may become the default Google Search experience “soon.”​
• ​Elon Musk’s xAI plans Seattle hub with engineering jobs paying up to $440k​
• ​AI Apocalypse? Why language surrounding tech is sounding increasingly religious​
• ​This AI Stock Is Quietly Gaining Ground. Should You Buy Now?​
• ​People Want AI To Help Artists, Not Be The Artist​
• ​Warner Bros Discovery sues AI photo generator Midjourney for stealing Superman, Scooby-Doo​
• ​Apple sued by authors over use of books in AI training​
• ​OpenAI to launch its first AI chip in 2026 with Broadcom, FT reports​
• ​Broadcom shares rally as $10 billion chip deal shows AI strategy paying off​
• ​OpenAI announces AI-powered hiring platform to take on LinkedIn​
• ​OpenAI teams up with Walmart to train millions of workers in artificial intelligence​
• ​AI shakes up the call center industry, but some tasks are still better left to the humans​
• ​US Open 2025 Puts AI in the Hands of Tennis Fans​
• ​Powell’s Books facing criticism after merchandise created with help of AI​
• ​Artificial intelligence is here. Will it replace teachers?​
• ​Google CEO, major tech leaders join first lady Melania Trump at White House AI meeting​
• ​C3.ai Stock Sinks as Struggling Firm Replaces CEO, Withdraws Outlook​
• ​Bret Taylor’s Sierra raises $350M at a $10B valuation​
• ​White House cuts to science funding threaten AI weather forecasting institute​
• ​Using AI to perceive the universe in greater depth​
• ​CEO Sundar Pichai’s remarks at the White House AI Education Taskforce​
• ​Should AI Get Legal Rights?​
• ​Head of UK’s Turing AI Institute resigns after funding threat​
• ​Atlassian bets on AI browsers with $610 million deal for The Browser Company​

Receiptor 2.0 Promises Bookkeeping on Autopilot

Receiptor AI 2.0 puts bookkeeping on autopilot: connect your inbox to backfill past invoices and monitor new ones, and it finds every receipt, extracts key fields (merchant, date, amount, tax), de-duplicates, and auto-categorizes expenses.

Snap paper receipts via a WhatsApp scanner, then export to PDF/CSV/ZIP, auto-store to Google Drive, or sync directly to Xero and QuickBooks Online.

New in 2.0: Organizations for collaboration, Multiple Entities to separate businesses/clients, Custom Rules for automated routing/exports/tags, Xero/QBO chart import, and an “Ask AI” panel for instant insights, bulk edits, and chart-of-accounts suggestions—plus faster extraction and smarter views.

Built to save hours, maximize deductions, and keep you audit-ready, Receiptor offers free options, 1-month retroactive extraction, and a 14-day full-feature trial (use code PH2025 for 20% off). Ranked #1 Product of the Day on September 2, 2025.https://receiptor.ai​

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