Prompt More
Yesterday, @frankdegods saved $27,000 by canceling unused subscriptions.
How’d he do it?
He vibe-coded an app with Claude Code that let him upload a credit card statement and instantly surface his top annual spends (without writing a single line of code himself).
Even better, Frank shared the code on Twitter. Others followed. They uploaded their own credit card receipts. Many shared their results, showing they, too, saved $5,000-$7,000 a year by downloading Frank’s source code from GitHub and running it themselves.
That’s the power of prompting.
AI Isn’t Plug-and-Play
Jason Lemkin of SaaStr recently shared on Lenny’s podcast that AI agents (20 of them) have replaced his 10-person business development team.
But he also made an important point: most companies can’t do this.
Why? Because they think they can just buy AI and drop it in.
In reality, it takes work. You prompt, fail, prompt again, iterate, tune, test, and repeat. Over and over.
The payoff is massive. Jason now has superpowers as a non-technical founder, managing agents in parallel, and a massive advantage over 99% of competitors who won’t get their hands dirty and can’t outsource their way into this capability.
Lesson? Prompt More.
From “Getting Off Zero” to Getting Good
I previously wrote The Prompt Gap to inspire folks to get off zero... literally just opening ChatGPT and doing something. Saying something. Experiencing one thing.
That’s table stakes now.
It’s not enough to try AI once. You need reps. Hundreds of them.
There’s a huge difference between learning about AI and knowing it through experience. It’s the difference between reading about sex and actually having sex. They are not even close.
Humans often suffer from a failure of imagination when it comes to AI. You don’t know what’s possible until you try. Until you experience that moment where something you assumed was impossible suddenly happens in seconds. Something that would’ve taken days or weeks before. Something you thought was outside your capability as a non-developer.
But you won’t get that insight until you try.
Prompt More.
My First AI Chief of Staff
Yesterday, I created my first AI Chief of Staff agent.
It’s rough. It’s rusty. But the idea is simple: I have more ideas than I can possibly execute in a day. That’s stressful. Pre-AI... I had lists upon lists of ideas I wanted to try, but never had the time.
This time is different.
I want to throw things over the wall... and now I can!
The agent captures ideas, processes them, clarifies them, does research, comes back with options—and sometimes even executes part of the work.
That alone is a pressure release valve.
Glamping (and Killing the Friction)
At a recent family dinner, friends mentioned they’d been camping. My girls have never gone, and they got excited about the idea.
We’ve been talking about new and novel experiences, so we thought, why not?
But who has time to plan an entire trip?
Claude did. It generated full itineraries in nearby states (costs, timelines, options). Suddenly, I had a clear picture of what was possible. Before, I probably wouldn’t have started because the research overhead felt too high.
Now I can do it while walking the dog, send it off, come back, and keep the idea alive.
Now I’m inspired to actually pull it off.
This Article (and Friction Removal)
No, this article wasn’t written by AI, but AI helped a lot.
I struggle to find uninterrupted time to sit down and write. Today I used Monologue to dictate while on my morning walk. It captured long-winded thoughts (I talk a lot), but made the hard part (starting) trivial.
Once captured, consolidating, refining, editing, and posting become easy.
Just like Frank sharing his app and others saving money, my hope is that by posting this, I encourage you to prompt more.
Reps > Results
@zmanian (a colleague I respect) has a simple goal: Prompt More.
And he takes it to a beautiful extreme.
He’s constantly trying to push and break Claude Code.
He’s constantly trying to max out his token usage.
Does the code always matter? Maybe not. Some of it may suck. Some of it may be useless.
But he’s getting reps. He’s having aha moments. Eureka moments... literally in the bathtub like the original Eureka!
And he’s not alone... I’m doom-scrolling less, prompting more, everywhere.
It’s addictive, but in an empowering way.
10,000 Prompts
Malcolm Gladwell coined the “10,000 hours to achieve mastery” meme.
In the age of AI, it’s 10,000 prompts.
Most will be mediocre. Thousands will be bad. But over time, you’ll develop intuition, reflexes, taste, judgment, and leverage. You’ll become faster, sharper, and harder to replace.
I’ve written about the 1% rule for AI:
1% will build something extraordinary
9% will iterate on what others share.
90% will watch from the sidelines (just reading).
Because AI is such a force multiplier, that 90% will be left behind.
Want to be employable? Impactful?
Prompt More.
A Prompt A Day
Frank didn’t just strike gold on day one.
He’s been playing a game. Every day, he tries to find something that Claude’s Opus 4.5 model can’t do.
The money-saving app was on day 24.
You can have your own luck, but you gotta start somewhere.
Make it a ritual. Make it a game. Make it a challenge.
“There’s no way AI can do that!”
Well, try! Test. Experiment.
Prove me wrong (but try at least a dozen reps before you send me comments).
Prompt More
Embrace the mantra.
And just do it.
You’ll thank me later.
