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Isenberg: Best AI Hack Is Asking the LLM to Write Prompts

Greg Isenberg · Business Is Now On Easy Mode · May 30, 2025 · at 23:48

Greg Isenberg and Sam Parr discuss prompt engineering shortcuts when using AI coding tools like bolt.new.

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“It might be the biggest hack of using LMs, like, well, is ask for the prompt. You will never be able to out prompt the person, the guy, you know, the software that sees all the prompts.”

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