The Only ChatGPT Prompt I Still Use

Everything else is noise.

I used to think I needed the perfect prompt.

You know the ones —
the massive “mega-prompts” people share on X with 40 instructions, a dozen brackets, and five emojis.

I tried them all.
And for a while, they felt powerful — like I was hacking the system.
Until I realized something simple:

None of them actually made ChatGPT think better.
They just made me feel like I was doing more.

Then I stripped everything away.

I stopped stacking prompts.
I stopped copying templates.
And I started asking:

“What do I actually need this model to understand before it answers me?”

That one question changed everything.

Because 90% of bad AI outputs come from one thing:
you and the model aren’t talking about the same problem.

So I wrote one line that fixes that.

Here it is — the only prompt I’ve kept using for months:

“Map out every layer of…