How I Use ChatGPT to Shape Ideas into Prompts

When I work with ChatGPT, I don't just ask for an answer and move on. 

Instead, we engage in a real dialogue, going back and forth like two entrepreneurs or architects sketching on a napkin.

Often, I'll ask a first question just to start thinking. As ChatGPT answers, I refine the idea, challenging and improving the direction. Sometimes we explore several paths before settling on the best.

But it doesn't stop there.

Once we agree on the right design or architecture, I take the extra step: I ask ChatGPT to write a prompt for itself.

This prompt serves two important roles:

- It captures the whole idea clearly and permanently.

- It can be reused in the future to quickly regenerate or expand the implementation.

I save these prompts as numbered Markdown files 

• 01_prompt_
• 02_prompt_, etc., up to about 
• 80_prompt_, as of today

Many of prompts use XML elements to make the structure even easier for LLMs to understand and parse.

This method isn't just about efficiency. It's about creating a growing library of thought. It is a system where a 30 minute chat discussion becomes a detailed, structured action that I or an agent can execute later, usually in the next day of programming, writing, or idea development.