When I’m staring down a massive task — a 3,000-word feature, a slide deck, a looming deadline for a script or a complicated editing job — my brain tends to do something unhelpful: it zooms straight to the finish line and panics. Or worse, sometimes I just stare out the window and watch the snow melt as I contemplate where to start.
That’s when I pull out what I’ve started calling the “pacer” prompt. This tiny shift in my workflow with AI has changed the way I tackle big projects for the better. And I use it with every chatbot. So, although I use it most with ChatGPT, it also works with Claude and Gemini, too.
