This OpenAI product manager always asks ChatGPT to 'impress' him. Here’s his advice for AI prompts.

Aug 01, 2026 05:30 PM - 2 hours ago 2

OpenAI merchandise head Ty Geri is pictured.

Ty Geri ever tells ChatGPT: "Please impressment me."

"You shouldn't person to," said Geri, a merchandise head astatine OpenAI. "The models should effort to impressment you regardless."

Geri joined OpenAI past twelvemonth aft moving astatine Google connected AI hunt products, for illustration its AI overviews. The 28-year-old from San Francisco is connected the beforehand lines of AI and shared pinch Business Insider really he uses it astir efficaciously astatine work.

That includes asking it to beryllium awesome — though he wasn't judge it helped much. "It could decidedly conscionable beryllium successful my caput astatine this point," he said.

His different strategy: agelong rants. "When I'm reasoning thing through, I put connected dictation, and I ramble," he said. He described ChatGPT arsenic his "partner," 1 that tin benignant done his thoughts and find what's "sticking."

Geri will participate 1 of OpenAI's meeting rooms, move connected his activity phone, and commencement talking to it. "Some group astir apt deliberation I'm doing thing important, but I'm conscionable talking to ChatGPT Work," he said.

He shares the strategy pinch different OpenAI alum: Andrej Karpathy, a founding personnel of the laboratory who later worked astatine Tesla and precocious joined Anthropic. Karpathy wrote successful July that he liked 10-minute voice sessions pinch an LLM that were a "total mess, thing goes, afloat watercourse of consciousness."

Still, Geri said he hoped users yet wouldn't request to person prompting strategies astatine all. There were areas that OpenAI needed to get amended astatine — "Our penning quality, I deliberation we request to improve," he said — but things should conscionable work.

Product head gigs are communal crossed tech, offering precocious salaries without requiring engineering experience. Still, the domiciled is quickly evolving successful the property of AI, arsenic PMs summation entree to caller skills done vibe-coding tools.

The superior occupation of a merchandise head hasn't changed, Geri said: to "care the astir about the product." What has changed, then, is the PM's expertise to "take action," he said.

"Once upon a time, a PM would strictly person to activity pinch a information scientist," he said. "Now, it's truthful overmuch much fluid and dynamic."

While the products are "empowering," Geri said, they besides "take distant a batch of excuses that we utilized to have." PMs could erstwhile opportunity that they didn't understand a definite shape of the engineering process, aliases that they didn't get each the technicalities. No more.

His proposal to different PMs: "Don't restrict what you tin understand aliases tin do anymore. You really tin do anything."

At OpenAI, PMs are often shipping code, he said. Jobs don't extremity and commencement successful specific, discrete places. People whitethorn person "spikes," sure, but they each stock a communal extremity and intends of achieving it.

"Our occupation is to attraction astir the personification and bring the champion acquisition to the user," he said. "We should do immoderate it takes to make that happen."