OpenAI product manager Ty Geri says his top prompting trick is to dictate a rambling stream of consciousness. He also asks ChatGPT to impress him. Here's his advice for PMs.
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Ty Geri always tells ChatGPT: "Please impress me."
"You shouldn't have to," said Geri, a product manager at OpenAI. "The models should try to impress you regardless."
Geri joined OpenAI last year after working at Google on AI search products like its AI overviews. The 28-year-old from San Francisco shared with Business Insider how he uses AI most effectively at work.
His core strategy: long rants. "When I'm thinking something through, I put on dictation, and I ramble," he said. He described ChatGPT as his "partner," one that can sort through his thoughts and find what's "sticking."
Geri will book an OpenAI meeting room, turn on his work phone, and start talking. "Some people probably think I'm doing something important, but I'm just talking to ChatGPT Work," he said.
He shares the approach with another OpenAI alum: Andrej Karpathy, a founding member of the lab who later worked at Tesla and recently joined Anthropic. Karpathy wrote in July that he liked 10-minute voice sessions with an LLM that were a "total mess, anything goes, full stream of consciousness."
Geri also asks the model to impress him – though he wasn't sure it helped. "It could definitely just be in my head at this point," he said.
Still, he said he hoped users eventually wouldn't need prompting strategies at all. There were areas where OpenAI needed to improve – "Our writing quality, I think we need to improve," he said – but things should just work.
The primary job of a product manager hasn't changed, Geri said: to "care the most about the product." What has changed is the PM's ability to "take action," he said.
"Once upon a time, a PM would strictly have to work with a data scientist," he said. "Now, it's so much more fluid and dynamic."
While the products are "empowering," Geri said, they also "take away a lot of excuses that we used to have." PMs could once say they didn't understand a certain stage of engineering or didn't get all the technicalities. No more.
His advice to other PMs: "Don't restrict what you can understand or can do anymore. You really can do anything."
At OpenAI, PMs are often shipping code, he said. Jobs don't end and start in discrete places. People may have "spikes," sure, but they all share a common goal.
"Our job is to care about the user and bring the best experience to the user," he said. "We should do whatever it takes to make that happen."
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