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@AlexFinn (posted 2026-05-10 17

2026-05-10 · 17:27 UTC ·@AlexFinn ·1 min read

Brief

@AlexFinn (2026-05-10) advocates "Reverse Prompting": give an AI a full brain dump about yourself, then prompt the model to ask you what additional info it needs and to list immediate tasks it can do. He names OpenClaw/Hermes as example agents and guarantees this approach yields far more actionable tasks ("100x") and productivity.

Why it matters

@AlexFinn (posted 2026-05-10 17:27:51+00:00) coins the term "Reverse Prompting": have your AI ask you questions so it can better help, claiming this makes any AI agent you use much more powerful and will produce "100x more things to do" than you expected.

Key details

  • Exercise: dump everything about your career/goals into any AI (mentions OpenClaw/Hermes), then run these prompts verbatim: "Based on what you know about me and my goals, what is more information I can provide to you in order for you to be able to help me achieve my goals faster and take as much off my plate as possible" followed by "What tasks can you do for me right now to get us closer to our ambitions and goals?"
Source evidence

The greatest AI skill you can learn is Reverse Prompting

You have your AI ask YOU questions, to see what it can do for you

Makes every AI agent you use so much more powerful

An exercise you can do right now:

Open up any AI/OpenClaw/Hermes. Brain dump everything about yourself and your career/goals/ambitions. Then use this reverse prompt:

"Based on what you know about me and my goals, what is more information I can provide to you in order for you to be able to help me achieve my goals faster and take as much off my plate as possible"

Then once you enter that, prompt this:

"What tasks can you do for me right now to get us closer to our ambitions and goals?"

Guarantee you come up with 100x more things to do with your AI than you thought of before

The more questions you ask your AI, the more you'll learn and the more you'll get done.