An OpenAI product manager's advice for AI prompts: 'I ramble'

"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 is on the front lines of AI and shared with Business Insider how he uses it most effectively at work. That includes asking it to be impressive — though he wasn't sure it helped much.

What Happened

"It could definitely just be in my head at this point," he said. "When I'm thinking something through, I put on dictation, and I ramble," he said.

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He described ChatGPT as his "partner," one that can sort through his thoughts and find what's "sticking." Geri will enter one of OpenAI's meeting rooms, turn on his work phone, and start talking to it.

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• "We should do whatever it takes to make that happen."

• People may have "spikes," sure, but they all share a common goal and means of achieving it.

Why It Matters

"Some people probably think I'm doing something important, but I'm just talking to ChatGPT Work," he said. He shares the strategy with another OpenAI alum: Andrej Karpathy, a founding member of the lab who later worked at Tesla and recently joined Anthropic.

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• At OpenAI, PMs are often shipping code, he said.

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