Dan Martell - ChatGPT Is A Yes Man

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00:00:00.000 chat gpt is pretty much like a yes man no matter what you ask it it's like you're so smart you can

00:00:05.080 accomplish anything that's because behind the language model is actually a system prompt that

00:00:10.660 the engineering team design for it to respond in that way making it agreeable and trying to solve

00:00:16.660 whatever question you ask it is just a better user experience but it doesn't actually help you get

00:00:20.480 better the better way is to actually give it the instructions literally say argue with me so here's

00:00:25.960 the tip if you want the prompt that's going to get it to stop doing that positive hallucination

00:00:30.060 go into default instructions and write this in there be my ruthless mentor if my ideas are trash

00:00:35.300 tell me why you need to stress test everything and get things to the point where it's bulletproof

Dan Martell - December 10, 2025