min.

Literally this morning, I was re-coaching ChatGPT to write like me.

I uploaded my usual “voice pack”:
↳ 20 top posts
↳ banned phrases
↳ tone notes
↳ audience doc

Spent 2.5 hours tweaking prompts, rewriting, arguing with the output:

“No, not like that. More me.”

Still sounded robotic. Still missing nuance.

Then I realized… the problem wasn’t ChatGPT.
It was how I was using it.

I didn’t need another “prompt.”
I needed a Custom GPT trained on my actual style — my posts, tone, and patterns.

So I built one.
(And yeah, I cheated a bit — I used this GPT generator because I was done doing it manually.)

10 minutes later, my new GPT wrote like it had been reading my drafts for years.
Same energy. Same rhythm. Even the little phrases I overuse.

Now when I write, I’m not starting from scratch — I’m collaborating with a version of me.

So yeah, prompt engineering is fun.
But custom systems?
That’s where the real power is.