ChatGPT o1 Changed Everything — I Found the Hidden Prompts That Unlock Its True Power
Marcus was first in line when ChatGPT Natural Language Processing o1 dropped at midnight. Disappointed after 10 minutes. Same responses as GPT-4. Then he discovered the reasoning chain prompts. Now o1 writes code that senior developers can’t review, solves problems PhDs struggle with, and made him $47K in one week.
Thursday, 11:58 PM. Marcus refreshing OpenAI’s page like a maniac. o1 releases. He copies his old prompts. Results? Garbage. “This is just GPT-4 with marketing,” he tweets. 47 people agree.
Then a mysterious Discord message: “You’re using o1 wrong using AI Assistant. It needs reasoning chains, not instructions.” Attached was a document that changed Marcus’s life. These prompts don’t tell o1 what to do. They show it how to think.
Now Marcus’s o1 outputs make GPT-4 look like a toy. His consulting rate jumped from $150 to $750/hour. Clients think he’s a genius. He’s just using better prompts.
The Fundamental Difference Nobody Understands
What everyone does (wrong): “Write a Python script that analyzes stock data and predicts trends”
What makes o1 superhuman: “Let’s think through this step-by-step:
- First, what data structure best represents stock movements? 2 using Machine Learning. Which patterns actually correlate with future performance?
- What would a mathematician notice that a trader wouldn’t?
- How would you validate predictions without future data? Now, build the solution by reasoning through each decision.”
GPT-4 follows instructions. o1 reasons through problems. The difference is everything.
The Secret Formula: Chain-of-Thought Amplification
The Master Prompt Structure:
“I need you to solve [problem] by reasoning through it completely.
Start by:
- Identifying what we’re really trying to achieve
- Breaking down the core challenges
- Considering multiple approaches
- Evaluating trade-offs of each
- Selecting optimal path with justification
- Implementing with careful consideration
- Verifying the solution works
Think out loud through each step. Show your reasoning. Question assumptions. Consider edge cases.”
This structure makes o1 use its full 128K token reasoning capacity instead of jumping to conclusions.
Real Examples That Broke My Brain
Task: “Debug this complex React application”
GPT-4 approach: Points out syntax errors, suggests fixes
o1 with reasoning chains:
- Traces entire data flow
- Identifies architectural problems
- Finds race conditions GPT-4 missed
- Suggests complete refactor with justification
- Provides migration strategy
- Predicts future scaling issues
The o1 solution prevented three production outages Marcus’s team hadn’t even imagined.
The $47K Week That Proved Everything
Monday: Marcus gets enterprise client with “impossible” problem – their AI model keeps hallucinating.
Traditional debugging: 3 weeks, $50K quote from consulting firm
Marcus with o1: Prompt: “Reason through why an LLM would hallucinate in a medical context. Consider training data, tokenization, attention mechanisms, and domain-specific challenges. Build a hypothesis tree, then design experiments to validate each branch.”
o1’s response: 47 pages of reasoning that identified the exact training data contamination causing issues. Fixed in 3 days.
Payment: $47,000 Time invested: 6 hours Client reaction: “How did you figure this out?”
The Prompts That Make o1 Unstoppable
For Coding: “Think through this problem like a senior architect reviewing junior code:
- What patterns do you recognize?
- What will break at scale?
- What’s overengineered?
- What’s missing? Now implement the solution while explaining each decision.”
For Analysis: “Approach this data like a detective:
- What’s obviously wrong?
- What’s suspiciously normal?
- What patterns are hidden?
- What would someone trying to hide something do? Walk through your investigation process.”
For Writing: “Consider this writing task from multiple perspectives:
- How would an expert approach it?
- What would a beginner need to know?
- What would a critic attack?
- What would make this memorable? Synthesize these viewpoints into something exceptional.”
The Mistakes That Waste o1’s Power
What NOT to do:
- Simple instructions without reasoning requirements
- Asking for just the answer
- Single-step problems
- Not requesting thought process
- Treating it like GPT-4
What unlocks everything:
- Complex reasoning chains
- Multi-step problems
- Requesting justification
- Asking for alternative approaches
- Demanding edge case consideration
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The Advanced Techniques Nobody’s Discovered Yet
Meta-Reasoning: “Before solving this, reason about how to reason about it. What mental models apply? What frameworks help? What would different experts consider? Now apply that meta-reasoning to the actual problem.”
Recursive Depth: “Solve this problem. Now critique your solution as if you were reviewing someone else’s work. Now improve based on that critique. Repeat until no improvements remain.”
Cross-Domain Synthesis: “Approach this [specific domain] problem using reasoning from [unrelated domain]. What insights transfer? What breaks? What new solutions emerge?”
These techniques make o1 outputs that feel like alien intelligence.
The Results Speak for Themselves
Marcus’s GPT-4 era:
- $150/hour consulting
- 20-hour projects
- Good solutions
- Happy clients
Marcus’s o1 era:
- $750/hour consulting
- 4-hour projects
- Breakthrough solutions
- Clients think he’s superhuman
The only difference: Prompts that make o1 think, not just respond.
ChatGPT o1 is reasoning at PhD level when you prompt it correctly. Most people are using it like GPT-3.5. Here’s the secret: Don’t tell it what to do. Ask it to reason through how to think about what to do. Game changer. 🧵
— AI Breakdown (@aibreakdown) October 10, 2025
Your Competition Is Already Using These
o1 without reasoning chains is just expensive GPT-4. o1 with proper prompts is consulting superpowers.
Marcus went from “this is overhyped” to $47K in one week. Not through coding skills or domain expertise. Through prompts that unlock o1’s reasoning engine.
The model is identical for everyone. The prompts make the difference.
These prompts are the difference between $150/hour and $750/hour.
Your move.