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Mastering Generative AI: Useful Prompts for Tech Leaders

How To Leverage Generative AI In Your Role As A Tech Leader

Isabel Nyo
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11 min readSep 19, 2023

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Just as business owners have long realized the wisdom of working on their business for lasting success, the same holds true for senior tech leaders like CTOs and VP Engineering’s. In today’s era of technology transformation, where the power of generative AI is reshaping industries, harnessing the potential of Generative AI tools like ChatGPT becomes not just advantageous but essential. It’s time to reimagine the role of tech leadership through a lens of efficiency and innovation.

A Familiar Situation

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Imagine you’re navigating a sea of code, keeping an eye on pull requests, striving to reach Inbox zero, and juggling meetings, all while trying to steer the ship towards engineering excellence and product growth.

As a tech leader, how do you make time and space to focus on strategic brilliance, embrace non-urgent yet crucial tasks, and propel your product’s success without becoming a bottleneck? There must be a solution!

With Generative AI, it offers you a way to scale your creativity and productivity. It can also give you different perspectives on problems that you may need to solve. It’s not just about automating tasks, but also about having a copilot that you can brainstorm ideas with. By doing so, you’re liberating yourself to focus on game-changing strategies, identifying and eradicating inefficiencies, and perhaps most importantly, freeing your time on strategic decision-making and leadership.

Here are top 10 prompts that tech leaders can use to harness the power of Generative AI in their roles.

Examples Prompts

If you think about key competencies of a tech leader, communication comes at the top. Then comes listening and observation skills. And last but not least, knowledge and expertise in their domain. Generative AI can boost tech leaders’ influence and impact by adding value in those competency areas.

Example 1: Explain a code

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Isabel Nyo
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Written by Isabel Nyo

My course for engineering managers: https://gum.co/emcourse | Tools and Resources for Tech Professionals & Leaders: https://gumroad.com/eisabai

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