As a husband, dad, full-time employee, and entrepreneur I don’t have a lot of spare time.
That’s one of the reasons why I’ve fallen in love with AI writing.
With AI, I’m able to accomplish in minutes, what used to take me hours.
Recently, I stumbled upon an even faster and smarter way to prompt AI.
An “AI writing hack,” if you will…
Enter: The Prompt Thinking Method.
What is Prompt Thinking?
“Prompt Thinking” is term I like to use to describe a loose and fast way to train and instruct AI written content.
Instead of providing a rigorous “fill-in-the-blank” prompt with clear directives, you provide your unfiltered and unorganized thoughts.
It’s you + AI, having a conversation. Thinking out loud.
It’s a method I’ve arrived at naturally through trial and error. But recently it really impressed me.
I was planning to write a post on Reddit and wondered: Could Claude take all of my jumbled up thoughts and organize them into a reddit post for me if I shared them unfiltered and unorganized?
Writing the post would’ve easily taken me 20-30 minutes in the past (I’m terrible at overthinking personal writing). And since I had to get the thoughts out anyway, I just typed into Claude to see what would happen.
I was shook.
It was even better than what I had in mind. Did it require some light editing? Sure. Did it save me over 20 minutes? You bet it did.
I was genuinely impressed with the hook it came up with… The AI Writing Revolution isn’t coming… it’s already here 👀
I also can’t figure out if it pulled this from context in our prior chats about AIWritingSchool.com or was it just a happy accident.
Either way, I was impressed.
Want to use the Prompt Thinking AI Writing Hack?
Here’s the breakdown:
- Gather your facts. Raw material that’s unique to you and your topic. The stuff AI doesn’t know about.
- Talk to AI like it’s your writing buddy. Spill your thoughts and don’t worry about the sentence structure or order. Focus on your intent and context. In my case, my intent and context was to share on reddit.
- Let AI do its thing. Then make it yours with some human editing and cleanup.
Why should you care?
Because time is money. And this method? It’s a massive time saver.
That Reddit post that Claude helped me write got more engagement than any other post I’ve written in the past 2 years (52k views and 131 comments!).
And it took me 5 minutes. On my lunch break.
ME a few month ago would’ve spent 30 minutes agonizing over every word.
I even shared about this method in r/Claude (and yes, I used Claude to help — AI inception at its finest) and that post received 88k views and 66 comments.
How to crush it with Prompt Thinking
- Just get it out. The beauty of prompt thinking is in not having to agonize over every word, so focus on speed and word vomiting initially.
- Context is king. Let the AI know where the content will be shared. This will affect tone, style, and word count.
- Don’t settle. Always ask for rewrites to improve the tone, style, and uniqueness. Push for better.
- Always edit. AI is your assistant, not your replacement. Use your brain and make edits like a human.
- Experiment. Find your flow. What works for me might not work for you.
The future isn’t AI vs. Humans
The future is AI + Humans vs. The Old Way.
Choose your side wisely.
