Prompt engineering, AI workflows, and automation with ChatGPT and other tools
1. GPT response formatting breaks Zapier parsing way too often Here’s what happened. The OpenAI step was returning clean JSON most days — because I told GPT to return JSON. But one time it decided to include “Here’s your result:” before the JSON blob, and that single line made my Zapier Code step reject the…
I was knee-deep in a client project when I noticed our weekly content calendar didn’t publish Monday’s post. Again. That’s the third time in two months it failed — and this time, blaming the RSS feed wasn’t going to fly. Turns out, one of the prompt variables that powered the blog post title generation had…
If you’ve ever set up automated cold outreach emails inside something like Instantly or Mailshake or even just with Google Apps Script + Sheets, you probably know the pain of waking up to a weirdly silent inbox. No opens, no clicks, no bounces. Nothing. Just vibes The last time it happened to me, it turned…