Podbit · God Mode Podcast
Reuben Ferrante crafts 30-minute structured prompts with goals, context, assumptions, and acceptance criteria. The God Mode crew just talks to the model and iterates. Both approaches work — but the retard maxing side argues 5 quick prompts gets you to the same destination faster.
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The episode's central tension crystallizes here: Reuben is a structured prompt engineer who spends 30 minutes crafting goal-context-assumption-criteria prompts in Markdown or XML, trying to make them airtight before submitting. The God Mode crew retard maxes — dumps thoughts in natural language and iterates. Rik pushes back gently, suggesting that with Mythos and future models, builders need to let go more and let the model dictate the outcome. Reuben acknowledges the value he's seen watching the crew work, and concedes that 5 quick prompts plus iteration might land in the same place as one carefully constructed 30-minute prompt. Ben then makes it practical: he converts idea-to-PRD via a structured template, then uses that PRD as a reference document for agents — getting structure without spending 30 minutes per query. Reuben adds a confession: he dictates prompts while driving using Whisperflow, which he finds 'a bit sad' — a sign of how AI has blurred the boundary between work and life.
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