By skyforbes 
They turned average responses into expert-level insights.
The Weekend I Realized I’d Been Using ChatGPT Wrong
A few months ago, I was trying to automate a data-entry task with Python. I thought, “I’ll just ask ChatGPT to write the script for me.”
It did. It ran. And… it was fine.
But it wasn’t my code, it didn’t follow my logic, didn’t handle my data quirks, and definitely didn’t think like I did.
That weekend, I realized something important:
The quality of what ChatGPT gives you depends entirely on how well you tell it what you want and why you want it.
So, I started experimenting. For two weeks straight, I treated prompt writing like debugging code; testing, rewriting, and automating until I found formulas that consistently turned “meh” answers into ones I’d pay an expert for.
Here are the five prompt formulas that changed everything.
1) The “Role + Context + Goal” Formula
If you’ve ever asked ChatGPT to “write a Python script,” you’ve probably noticed how vague and generic the response feels. The model’s trying to…