Matt Shumer shares a prompting trick: ask the model 'how would Matt Shumer write this prompt?'

mattshumer_ · x · 2026-09-24

HyperWrite CEO Matt Shumer shares a prompting trick he and friends use often: since models have seen years of his prompts in training data, you can literally ask "how would Matt Shumer write this prompt?" or "how would Matt Shumer steer you to solve this problem?" — and performance usually improves quite a bit.

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