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The Big Idea
The prompt is reversing. You're about to become the one being prompted.
The boundary between you prompting the model and the model prompting you is about to get very blurry.
We've spent the last two years learning how to talk to AI. Writing better prompts. Structuring inputs. Optimizing for outputs. The entire relationship has been one-directional: human asks, AI responds.
That's about to flip.
The shift nobody's preparing for
AI models are already starting to prompt you back. Not just clarifying questions. Strategic prompts designed to extract better information, refine your thinking, and guide you toward better outcomes.
Claude asks follow-up questions before generating code. ChatGPT probes for context before answering complex queries. Gemini suggests alternative framings when your prompt is ambiguous.
This isn't a bug. It's the future of human-AI collaboration.
The models are learning that the quality of their output depends on the quality of their input. And the fastest way to improve input quality isn't better prompt engineering guides. It's prompting the human.
Why this matters
The skill of prompting is becoming obsolete before most people mastered it. The new skill is responding to AI prompts effectively.
Think about it: When AI asks you "What's the primary goal of this project?" or "Who is the target audience?" — your answer shapes everything that follows. The AI is doing prompt engineering on you.
The best AI users in 2026 won't be the ones with the best prompts. They'll be the ones who give the best responses when AI prompts them.
What this looks like in practice
Conversational iteration: Instead of crafting the perfect prompt upfront, you'll have a dialogue. The AI will ask questions, you'll refine, it'll probe deeper, and together you'll arrive at the optimal framing.
AI-led discovery: The model will guide you through problem-solving by asking strategic questions you didn't know to ask yourself. It's not just answering your questions. It's helping you figure out what questions matter.
Reverse delegation: You used to delegate tasks to AI. Now AI will delegate thinking back to you. "Before I generate this, help me understand your constraints." "What trade-offs are you willing to make?" "What does success look like?"
The uncomfortable implication
If AI is prompting you, who's really in control?
The answer: It depends on how good you are at being prompted.
The people who win will be the ones who can articulate their goals, constraints, and preferences clearly when AI asks. The ones who lose will be the ones who give vague, contradictory, or incomplete responses — and then blame the AI for bad outputs.
What this means
If you're learning AI, stop obsessing over prompt templates. Start practicing how to respond when AI asks you questions. The skill is clarity under interrogation.
If you're building AI products, design for dialogue, not one-shot prompts. The best UX won't be a text box. It'll be a conversation where the AI leads.
If you're managing teams, the people who thrive with AI won't be the ones who write the longest prompts. They'll be the ones who can articulate what they want when AI asks them to clarify.
What's next
Expect AI to get more aggressive about prompting you. Not just clarifying questions. Strategic questioning designed to extract your mental models, surface hidden assumptions, and guide you toward better decisions.
The prompt is reversing. The question is whether you're ready to be on the receiving end.
BTW: The best AI interactions in 2026 will feel less like giving commands and more like being interviewed by someone who knows exactly what questions to ask.
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Today’s Top Story
OpenAI claims 8x enterprise growth while declaring 'code red' on Google
The Recap: OpenAI announced 8x growth in ChatGPT enterprise message volume since November 2024 and crossed 1 million global business customers—positioning itself as the fastest-growing enterprise platform in history. But the celebration came just days after CEO Sam Altman sent an internal "code red" memo warning about Google's competitive threat, exposing the gap between public wins and private panic as the AI race intensifies.
Unpacked:
The enterprise metrics are staggering: 8x message volume growth, 19x increase in custom GPTs (now 20% of enterprise messages), and API customers consuming 320x more reasoning tokens than a year ago—showing real integration into complex business workflows, not just experimentation.
OpenAI now commands 36% of U.S. businesses as ChatGPT Enterprise customers compared to Anthropic's 14.3%, but this dominance masks a critical vulnerability—consumer subscriptions still represent the majority of revenue, exactly where Google's Gemini is closing the gap fastest.
The "code red" memo reveals strategic desperation: Altman is pulling resources from experimental projects to defend ChatGPT's core position, a classic market leader move when competitive pressure mounts and maintaining share becomes more important than innovation.
The enterprise push isn't optional—it's existential. OpenAI has committed $1.4 trillion to infrastructure investments, making B2B growth the only path to justifying that capital expenditure as consumer revenue alone won't cover the data center bills.
Three quarters of enterprise workers report AI enables technical tasks they couldn't do before, with 36% more coding messages coming from outside engineering teams—evidence that AI is expanding job capabilities rather than just automating existing work.
Bottom line: OpenAI's simultaneous victory lap and internal panic perfectly captures the AI industry's contradictions. The company is winning enterprise adoption at unprecedented speed while privately acknowledging that Google's consumer momentum threatens the revenue base funding that growth. The real story isn't the 8x growth—it's that even dominant market position provides no safety when competitors have comparable resources and better distribution. OpenAI's challenge is executing a two-front war: defending consumer share against Google while racing to lock in enterprise customers before Anthropic and open-source alternatives commoditize the foundation model layer. The "code red" memo suggests leadership knows the window is closing faster than the growth metrics imply.
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Apple's chip chief Johny Srouji considering exit after building Silicon dominance, suggesting cracks in Apple's executive stability as the team that delivered M-series supremacy contemplates life beyond Cupertino.
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