99% of People Use AI Wrong — Here's How to Use AI Tools to Work Smarter
Here, I'm going to show you my own AI hacks that'll make you smarter.
Let me be honest, we all know AI is growing faster than we can even imagine.
And the bigger companies? Well, Meta, Google, OpenAI, and other giants are blindly racing toward the future trying to win the AI game at any cost.
Thanks to that, we now have access to tons of powerful AI tools, many of them free that can easily help to boost our productivity at least by 10x.
And if we use them the right way, they can help us make 10 times more money too.
But here’s the main problem: most people still use ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity just to write boring, obvious AI-made posts.
That doesn’t make any sense, right? That’s exactly why I’m writing this post to show you how I use the most popular AI tools in my daily workflow to produce more and make more.
Excited? Let’s start.
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1. Build your own personal brand
We all know that most of our jobs aren’t safe anymore, and that’s exactly why I’m building a personal brand on LinkedIn to create one more side income.
And for that, I’m writing at least one informative post every day.
But how?
Well, I use Perplexity to get the latest information along with sources, read through them, and pick the most valuable news I can share on LinkedIn.
Then I write content based on my expertise and share it on both LinkedIn and Substack Notes.
Sometimes, I even ask Claude or ChatGPT to draft initial sections or generate hooks based on my topic. I then edit everything, add my own voice and insights, and make sure it doesn’t sound generic or “AI-generated”.
This way, I’m consistently writing quality content and publishing across both platforms.
I'm Using AI (to Write Online), and It's Giving Me an Unfair Advantage Over Others
If you follow me, you may know I’ve been writing online for over 5 years. And to be honest, writing online and making money is not at all easy.
2. Build 8-figure businesses using AI
You know, I’ve seen multiple AI companies with insane growth like Aragon AI, Cursor, and more that went from $0 to $10M within a year or two.
But how? They focused on building something genuinely useful for a lot of people.
Well, we can even build something useful, and for that, we can learn (almost anything) from LLMs like ChatGPT, Gemini, and others.
To be more specific, you can ask what to build based on your skills, get a complete roadmap to get started, learn how to create a website for your business, and so on.
For example, I recently built an SEO-optimized blog website within minutes just by clearly telling ChatGPT what I needed.
Also, before even thinking about building a product, I use AI to validate ideas. I ask models like ChatGPT and Gemini to analyze the current market for AI-powered writing tools, and much more. This gives me a solid, data-driven starting point.
Along with that, I used an AI-powered tool called Buildpad to create my AI newsletter on Gumroad, and my newsletter is growing at an insane pace.
I even made a similar version of that newsletter on Substack.
Not only that, but I’m seeing a growing number of AI influencers like Naina, Aitana, and Kyra, and they’re making millions. Yes, per month.
In short, we have everything we need. We just need to get started. That’s all.
3. Become an expert in any field
You know, I’ve been a web developer for the past 5 to 6 years, and I’ve built tons of websites for my clients . I even worked at a startup.
But now, I can see that LLM models and other AI tools can generate dream websites within minutes. I don’t know what will happen in the future.
So, I’m spending time learning about AI with the help of ChatGPT.
I’ve asked it everything — how to get started, what to learn, the roadmap to learn in the shortest time possible, and it even explains complex topics to me in simple English.
To give you one more example: instead of a generic output, I ask ChatGPT to design a personalized learning roadmap for becoming proficient in quantum computing, assuming I have a basic understanding of linear algebra.
The same way, I wanted to rank my articles on Google, and I didn’t know how to implement SEO tactics and more.
So I simply asked ChatGPT to help me, and that’s all. Most of my articles are now ranked on Google.
To truly internalize knowledge, I use AI for simulated practice. For SEO, I might ask ChatGPT to act as a Google SEO auditor and critique a hypothetical blog post for its on-page SEO, or simulate a client asking me about the best keyword strategy for a new e-commerce site.
To be honest, this hands-on, interactive learning is invaluable.
Also, earlier everyone would recommend becoming an expert in one field and you’re good to go. But now, you can be an expert in multiple fields in no time.
4. Launch SaaS products with Claude
Earlier, when there was no ChatGPT or any other AI tools, I was working with just 2 to 3 clients every month to build websites for them.
But thanks to AI website builders and other AI tools, I can easily take on 5 to 10 clients and build their websites in one-tenth of the time.
The reason? I simply write a specific prompt about what I want to generate, the features I want to add, and then tweak the output based on my expertise.
Since I understand web development well, I can quickly fix any errors in the generated code.
To be more specific, when building a new SaaS feature, I use Claude or Gemini to generate Python code for an authentication module with OAuth2 integration, or write JavaScript for a drag-and-drop file upload component with progress indicators.
Sure, the initial code might have some errors but it gives me a huge head start, often covering 80–90% of the work.
And that’s not all.
I’m seeing people with zero programming experience building SaaS products using tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini, and launching them without any major issues.
Sure, you need to spend some time cleaning up errors, but it’s not a big deal. And honestly, with time, these LLMs will be smart enough to write error-free code on their own.
Thanks to that, even as a non-programmer, you can build an app with just an idea to solve a problem, and potentially make millions. It’s literally possible.
5. Transform your reading experience
Now, this one isn’t exactly about making money with AI, it’s about becoming more productive while reading.
So, to give you some context, I read a lot every day.
Sometimes I read money or financial books, sometimes I take text-based courses to learn new skills, and other times I go through multiple posts on different topics.
And that’s where I use a couple of AI tools to help me out.
First of all, I use ChatGPT to decide whether a book is worth reading or not. Because when it comes to financial books, most of them say the same thing, and we don’t have enough time to read each and every one.
So, I just ask ChatGPT which ones are actually worth reading, what each book covers, and what key concepts or lessons it includes.
You see, instead of wasting hours reading the whole book, I just ask ChatGPT for a summary.
Want the key lessons? You can again ask, and so on.
Here’s why this changes the game:
First, you instantly know if a book is worth your time since you get the full summary upfront.
Second, you can extract specific strategies, lessons, and tactics — without reading the entire book.
And finally, it saves you a ridiculous amount of time.
Beyond that, you can use NotebookLM as your personalized AI reading assistant.
Here’s how it works:
Go to their site, create a new notebook, upload your book PDF, and it turns it into a podcast.
For example, I uploaded 100M Leads by Alex Hormozi, and the AI turned it into a 17-minute, 12-second podcast.
Now I can just listen to it anytime and get all the key insights without reading the entire book.
And the best part? I can ask specific questions about the book’s strategies and ideas — and get exactly what I need, instantly.
Insane, right?
6. Build and sell digital products using AI
Most of you may not know this since I don’t promote much but I’ve got a couple of digital products on Gumroad.
And some of my recent products were literally made with AI.
To be more specific, here are a few digital products I’ve created using AI:
If you buy any of these, you’ll get a complete idea of how informative they are way better than 95% of the products online.
And guess what? I generated the ideas, outlines, and even most of the content using Claude AI.
Then, based on my own expertise, I made each product more informative and practical by adding stats, my learnings, and more.
Well, I didn’t just use AI for building the product itself.
I even used it to write catchy sales messages and emails for my Gumroad audience.
But how? I fed it all the info about my product and asked it to generate high-converting emails, bullet points, and copy targeting aspiring entrepreneurs focusing on time-saving and income generation.
This way, it saved me a ton of time and drastically sped up my launch process.
7. Clone your own writing voice
You know, I’ve been using ChatGPT for maybe the last 2 years, so it already has tons of data about my writing.
And over time, I’ve noticed that whenever I ask it something, it generates responses based on my style and tone.
Earlier, I had to upload samples of my writing, ask it to analyze my tone, and then tell it to generate content accordingly.
Now, I can just ask it to write in my style — sentence structure, tone, emotional undertones, and all. By the way, it even has a Memory feature, which makes things even easier.
Just look at the content it generated above, it’s way better than what most people post on LinkedIn.
And think about how much more informative I can make it from here.
Plus, I can upload my own content and ask it to improve it further, and it actually does.
Hope you like it.
That’s it — thanks.
Interesting...thanks for sharing your worflows..and prompts..
Great piece 👏 Restacked it 💥