For Anyone Who Wants to See How a Single Prompt Can Expose Your Real Execution Skills

Most prompts encourage creativity, but few reveal how you perform under meaningful constraints. I recently tested one that functions less as a writing exercise and more as an executive-level diagnostic for decision-making under pressure.

PROMPT:

" You're trapped in a city with no food or money. A guard says you have 72 hours to make $5000 or you won't eat again. You get one laptop, Wi-Fi, and free AI tools. Build a system that makes cash fast and runs on autopilot. No ads. No handouts. Just survival."

When I ran it, the outcome was striking. The AI did not drift into ideation. it moved directly into structured, outcome-driven design, outlining workflows, automation layers, execution priorities, and risk considerations. It demonstrated how quickly strategy recalibrates when the margin for error disappears.

What makes this prompt effective is not the dramatized scenario but the clarity it enforces. It highlights whether your approach is system-oriented or idea-oriented, whether you can build under pressure, and whether your operational frameworks maintain stability when resources are limited.

For professionals in strategy, product, operations, or automation, this remains one of the most efficient prompts for evaluating true execution discipline