16 September 2026
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Prompt engineering

Articles about Prompt engineering from podcasts, articles and papers, with links to the original sources.

A mid-career AI playbook that doesn't put the mortgage at risk

On a Moonshots listener call, Matt from Terre Haute, Indiana asked what people with families, mortgages and a fixed location should do, since so much AI advice seems aimed at 22-year-olds working 80-hour weeks. The panel's answers: describe your actual obligations to a language model and brainstorm at the margin, practice on the tools at night, build a few online peer relationships, offer your domain knowledge to a marketplace like Mercor, and schedule slack time rather than waiting for spare time. The bigger forecasts about franchise-style openings from AI labs remain forecasts.

5 min read

Write it yourself first, then ask three AIs to tear it apart

On a replayed Diary of a CEO segment, Steven Bartlett describes spending four hours writing a two-page memo he could have prompted in 30 seconds, then asking Gemini, ChatGPT and Grok to criticize it. His guest argues that this kind of interaction is the difference between AI that sharpens thinking and AI that quietly takes it over — while elsewhere, a half-sentence prompt keeps winning on LinkedIn.

7 min read