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Everyone has the same models. The results are nothing like the same.
You’ve used AI for a while now. It works. You ask, you get an answer back in about forty seconds, and it’s fine.
Fine is where most people stop, and understandably so. An analysis, a plan, a summary of forty pages you didn’t want to read, a draft of something: what comes back is competent, unremarkable and roughly what the person next to you got when they asked something similar.
That gap is the subject of this newsletter. Not what AI can do, which you already know, but what separates the people getting real work out of it from the people getting a slightly faster version of average.
It usually comes down to structure. One prompt gets you an answer. A sequence of prompts, each one working on what the last one produced, gets you something you can actually use.
What this is
AI Prompt Hackers is read by more than 32,000 people who use AI for real work. Founders, analysts, marketers, consultants, writers and a decent number of people who just got tired of mediocre output.
Twice a week you get prompts you can copy and use the same day. No theory sections. No explanations of how large language models work. Every prompt written out in full, with the placeholders marked, an example of what to put in them and a description of what comes back.
Getting through a long document and coming out with something you can act on. Turning a messy spreadsheet into an answer you’d be willing to defend. Pressure-testing a decision before you commit to it. Taking a task you rebuild every month and turning it into something you run instead. Some issues are about writing too.
If it can’t be used within ten minutes of reading, it doesn’t go in.
Free
Two issues a week, and the first prompt in every one.
That first prompt is complete and working, with the full instructions rather than a sample of them. Plenty of people run on those alone and get real value from it.
Paid
$7 a month, or $49 a year.
Every prompt in every issue, which is usually seven to nine more per article, plus the parts that only work as a sequence.
Then the two skill packs, which are the reason most people upgrade. Each covers one area properly rather than sampling several, and they’re the two areas where a connected sequence makes the biggest difference.
Sell What You Know is four connected skills for building a solo business. Working out which of your skills somebody actually pays for, and demanding evidence rather than enthusiasm. Researching your buyer properly, including what they’ve already tried and what it taught them to distrust. Writing a sales page and then reading it back as a sceptic. And building a delivery system that ends with capacity maths, which sometimes tells you the business doesn’t work at your price.
Write Like Yourself is four connected skills for anyone who publishes. It reads three to five things you’ve written and builds a specification of your actual voice, down to your sentence lengths and punctuation habits. Then a skill that turns a rough idea into a tested brief, one that drafts the piece and then attacks its own draft, and one that gets everything out of it after publication.
Both packs come in three formats: Claude Skills, Gemini Gems and Custom GPTs.
Both include full worked examples so you can see the output before committing an afternoon to it.
Yours to download the moment you upgrade.
Power User
$99 a year.
Everything above, plus the skill library.
Full multi-step skills with worked examples, built to the same standard as the ones in the packs, with a new one added every month.
The library is where the rest of the ground gets covered. Research that grades its own sources and tells you where they disagree. Data analysis that hunts for the finding that’s true and misleading. Decisions that name the option you’re avoiding. Getting found, when you’ve built something good and nobody knows it exists.
A year of that is a substantial library of things you own and keep, and it’s the tier for people who’d rather have the systems than read about them.
What this isn’t
Worth saying plainly, because a lot of AI newsletters promise things they don’t deliver.
This isn’t news. If a model gets an update on Tuesday, you’ll read about it somewhere else first, and probably from someone who enjoys writing that more than I do.
It isn’t a course. There’s no curriculum and no sequence you have to follow. Every issue stands alone.
It isn’t going to do the thinking for you. The skills are deliberately confrontational about that. One will tell you your favourite business idea has no evidence behind it. One will do the capacity maths and show you the business doesn’t work at the price you picked. Another will name the exact paragraph where a reader gives up on your draft. That’s the useful part, and it isn’t always the enjoyable part.
And there’s no upsell waiting. No coaching, no cohort, no strategy call. Two issues a week, the packs, and the library if you want it.
Why I do this
Before stepping back from corporate life I was a CEO, a COO and a CTO, and I co-led a $200m management buyout, one of the biggest and fastest of its time. Most of that job was reading things I didn’t have time to read and making decisions on partial information, which is roughly what I use AI for now.
Since then I’ve watched people get remarkable results out of these tools while others get very little, often from the same model and a similar question. The difference is almost never intelligence. It’s method, which is a teachable thing, and more interesting to write about than another take on where AI is heading.
I read every reply. If something doesn’t work, or works better than you expected, tell me. Some of the best material here has come from someone using a prompt in a way I hadn’t thought of.
If you’re getting answers out of AI and suspect there’s a better one available, you’re in the right place.
Andy
P.s. One thing worth knowing
I use AI to help produce this newsletter. I’m not performing artisanal purity about the writing process, and I won’t pretend otherwise. What I bring is 40 years of judgment about what’s worth testing, what the results actually mean, and what’s worth your time. That’s not something AI can replace yet.
If you want to know exactly how I use it, read the Honest AI Manifesto.