# Your ChatGPT "Mega Prompts" now make your outputs worse. | We Call Shotgun > The 6-part brief replaces your 400-word prompt in ChatGPT 5.5. Stop training AI as an intern. Start briefing it like an agency. Source: https://wecallshotgun.com/blog/your-chatgpt-mega-prompts-now-make Language: en --- [Your Spicy Advisory becomes We Call Shotgun!Read the story →](https://wecallshotgun.com/blog/spicy-advisory-is-now-we-call-shotgun) [HOME](https://wecallshotgun.com/) [ABOUT US](https://wecallshotgun.com/about) [REVIEWS](https://wecallshotgun.com/reviews) [BLOG](https://wecallshotgun.com/blog) [Book a Call](https://cal.com/wecallshotgun/ai-adoption) Ai # Your ChatGPT "Mega Prompts" now make your outputs worse. By [Toni Dos Santos](https://wecallshotgun.com/about) • May 8, 2026 • 8 min read SummaryThe 6-part brief replaces your 400-word prompt in ChatGPT 5.5. Stop training AI as an intern. Start briefing it like an agency. You know the feeling. Over time, your super ChatGPT prompts have gotten…(very) long. You added a rule when an output went sideways. Then another rule. Then another. Now your “write a blog intro” prompt is 400 words and you copy-paste it everywhere because you’re scared to touch it. ![](https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6218f525-8583-4788-b3af-d3a2c9a9a038_1731x909.png)Last month, a head of marketing from one of the largest construction groups in Europe showed up in my workshop, proudly sharing his “mega-prompt” to generate a brief. Months of refinement. Stacked on top of each other. Half date back to GPT-4. **The issue: ChatGPT 5.5 doesn’t need a long prompt anymore.** In a lot of cases, it’s making your output worse. ## ChatGPT 5.5 went from junior intern to freelance agency This 👆🏻 is basically the shift, summarized in plain words. When you brief a junior intern, you hold their hand, and give them step-by-step instructions: - *Step 1: read this.* - *Step 2: identify the themes.* - *Step 3: write a first draft.* - *Step 4: check the tone| Step 5…| Step 6…| Step 7…* That’s how you train someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing yet, and that’s necessary in their first month. When you brief a freelance agency, you don’t do that. You give them a brief: goal, audience, deliverable, must-haves, what to avoid, how you’ll measure success. Then you let them work. You review the output, give notes, iterate. **And that’s how ChatGPT 5.5 needs to be briefed now.** It reasons faster, stays direct by default, and makes better choices when you describe the destination instead of every turn along the way. *If you want to train your teams to “actually” use AI efficiently for work, without fluff theory and learn hands-on to make the best of it, that’s the core of what we do at We Call Shotgun.* Book a free diagnosis OpenAI’s own guidance is blunt: *shorter prompts beat long instructions, outcome-first beats step-by-step.* This is relevant, because every model release moves further in that direction. As models improve, they reward cleaner briefs. The skill that compounds is the brief. Marketing teams who get it now will be ahead six months from now. ## The PROMPT framework To make it easy to understand, I built a simple framework for marketing, sales, and HR teams who don’t want to learn prompt engineering. They just want their ChatGPT to give good results. Six parts: - **P = Purpose**. The outcome you want. Not the activity. - **R = Role**. The perspective ChatGPT takes. - **O = Output**. The shape of the answer (table, paragraphs, bullet list…). - **M = Must-follow rules**. The constraints that genuinely matter. - **P = Proof.** What evidence to use, what to flag as uncertain. - **T = Test.** The model checks its own work before answering. That’s the whole thing. Memorize the 6 letters. Within a week, your prompts will look more like the briefs you’d send a freelance agency. ![](https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3e4d9de7-4c09-48e6-b816-1114aefab7d1_1448x1086.png)Below I share different real-world examples of how to rewrite your prompts to match this new approach ## Example 1: Campaign brief Here is an example of the rewrites for marketing teams I see in our workshops: **Old prompt (the marketing classic):** You are an expert B2B marketing strategist with 20 years of experience at top SaaS companies. You have launched 100+ campaigns. Step 1: analyze the target audience. Step 2: identify their pain points. Step 3: brainstorm 5 campaign concepts. Step 4: pick the best one. Step 5: write a creative brief. Step 6: add channel recommendations. Step 7: include success metrics. Use the AIDA framework. Use a confident, professional tone. Be creative but on-brand. Don't hallucinate. Make it actionable. Include a call to action...*(Then another 200 words of rules.)* **New prompt (P.R.O.M.P.T. framework):** Act as a B2B campaign strategist. Goal: A creative brief for a campaign that drives demo bookings from mid-market marketing leaders who already use AI tools but feel stuck. Output: One creative brief with audience, insight, key message, 3 channel ideas, 2 success metrics. Under 400 words. Rules: - No buzzwords (no "transform," "empower," "revolutionize") - The insight should be specific, not a platitude - Channel ideas tied to the audience, not generic "do LinkedIn" Before answering, check that the insight could only apply to this audience and not a generic B2B buyer.**Same job. 80% fewer words.** Better output, because the model picks the path instead of fighting your micro-steps. The shift is from training the intern to briefing the agency. *The content below is for our Vibe subscribers. Join us and get:* - **Example 2:** The persona research prompt rewrite. - **Example 3:** The LinkedIn post prompt rewrite - The trap I see in workshops and the free one-line fix that almost nobody we teach uses. - **The full PROMPT guide on Notion:** 4 templates, the audit checklist, the strategy review prompt I use with C-suite clients. - And **full access** to all the **Vibe resources** and articles. *If you've ever asked ChatGPT to write a persona doc and got a generic B2B SaaS template back instead of your actual buyer, that's the first thing waiting below.* ## Example 2: Persona research from customer interviews **Old prompt:** You are a customer research expert with deep B2B persona development experience. I'm going to give you my interview notes. Please carefully read them. Then identify common themes. Then categorize them. Then extract pain points. Then prioritize them by frequency. Then write a persona document with: name, role, demographics, goals, pains, objections, jobs-to-be-done, preferred channels, decision criteria, quotes, and recommended messaging angles...![](https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ee6d1a39-4240-4f06-b9c5-b5f756c6a2c9_1448x1086.png)**New P.R.O.M.P.T.:** **Want to go deeper?** At [We Call Shotgun](https://wecallshotgun.com/enterprise), we help startups and scale-ups integrate AI into their product and GTM processes. Explore our [AI adoption programs](https://wecallshotgun.com/enterprise) for hands-on workshops and deployment support. ## Keep Reading [Ai May 2, 2026 ### Stop writing AI slop.Start preventing it. LLMs all sound the same because they’re trained on the average. AI slop writing needs forced constraints and writing frameworks to remove 80% of the slop. 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