💬 The Prompt That Changed How I Use ChatGPT Forever

I’ve been using ChatGPT almost every day since it came out.
Writing code. Drafting articles. Brainstorming startup ideas.

But for months, I felt like I wasn’t really getting it.
It gave me good answers — but not great ones.
Sometimes it felt robotic, other times generic.

Then one night, while working on a late project and running on too much caffeine,
I typed a simple prompt that completely changed how I use ChatGPT.
And it blew my mind.

☕ The Night of Frustration

It was around 1:30 a.m.
I was trying to debug a weird issue in my React app — the kind that doesn’t throw an error, but still refuses to work.

I’d already spent hours searching Stack Overflow, reading docs, and asking ChatGPT:

“Why isn’t my state updating in React?”

It kept giving me the same basic stuff — like a polite tutor who doesn’t realize you’ve already read the entire textbook.

Frustrated, I leaned back, rubbed my eyes, and thought,

“This thing doesn’t know how I’m thinking.”