Ty Geri always tells ChatGPT: “Please impress me.”

“You shouldn’t have to,” said Geri, a product manager at OpenAI. “The models should try to impress you regardless.”

Geri joined OpenAI last year after working at Google on AI search products, like its AI overviews. The 28-year-old from San Francisco is on the front lines of AI and shared with Business Insider how he uses it most effectively at work.

That includes asking it to be impressive — though he wasn’t sure it helped much. “It could definitely just be in my head at this point,” he said.

His other strategy: long rants. “When I’m thinking something through, I put on dictation, and I ramble,”…