The secret life of unnamed streets in your AI stack

A system to help you stop losing your best ideas in a mess of random chats by building a City Map for your AI through strategic interrogation.

Welcome to today’s edition of ROBOTS ATE MY HOMEWORK. Today, we’re diagnosing why your smartest AI workflows keep vanishing, then building them street names so they stick around long enough to compound.

A few months ago, I picked up Deirdre Mask’s The Address Book. She outlines that homes without addresses effectively disappear. Ambulances can’t find you, job offers never arrive, and you vanish from the parts of the world that create opportunity.

Around the same time I read this book, Paris did the exact opposite of erasing someone. It named a viewpoint in Montmartre the “La Bohème” Belvedere in honor of Charles Aznavour, one of my all-time favorite musicians.​

Belvedere de la Boheme opened in Paris in Charles Aznavour`s honor - https://arminfo.info/full_news.php?id=91765&lang=3

These two things (a missing address in the middle of nowhere and a named belvedere in Paris) are the extremes of the same idea: naming and addressing determine value.

An address allows a location to accumulate history and compound its worth over time. Unaddressed locations simply exist in the void.

Your prompts work the same way.

An organized Prompt City functions as a transferable business asset. You can hand it to a junior employee and expect senior-level output immediately. Disorganization, conversely, creates a liability.

Right now, most of us suffer from Prompt Rot. Our smart strategies quietly decay because we fail to give them a permanent address.

Our attempts to build an AI stack have resulted in accidental urban sprawl. Lacking zoning laws or a transit system, this sprawl costs us 5–10 hours a week in “re-creation time.”

Today, you become the Urban Planner through a series of increasingly uncomfortable questions that force you to see what you’ve been avoiding.

Here’s what we're building:

• A diagnostic system that reveals your real priorities (not your stated ones)

• The Ghost District Protocol: finding the gap between what you say matters and where you invest your time

• A naming convention that turns chaos into reusable intellectual property

• One 5-minute audit that delivers immediate value

To keep this doable instead of overwhelming:

• Start with one domain (e.g., “newsletter writing”), not your entire AI history.

• You’ll run just 4 prompts, each more revealing than the last

• No exports, no spreadsheets, no admin work. Just plain old thinking

Let’s give your workflows street names.

𓉱 Step 1: Reveal the “Dark City”

Look, your first instinct is probably to export your entire AI history because data is king, right? More data equals more insights.

Except that’s a trap. You’ll end up with a massive file that takes two hours to sort through and you’ll never do anything with it.

Instead, we’re doing something simpler. We’re going to look at your most recent behavior, the stuff you’ve been doing in the last couple weeks without thinking about it.

Open your AI history sidebar. Look at the last 10 chats (or more if you’ve got some more time on your hands) you spent a lot of time on.

For each one, write down a super short description. Like 3-5 words max.

Mine are super random and look like:

• “any actionable stuff…”

• “SYSTEM ROLE & IDENTITY…”

• “i need help figuring out…”

• “i need you to be a bit obj…”

• “THE ROBOTS METHOD….”

And yeah, I still use “I need you to be a bit objective” prompts 😂

Don’t clean this up. Don’t skip the embarrassing ones where you asked AI to write your grocery list or whatever. This is your raw data, and raw data doesn’t lie.

Now take that list and run this prompt:

I’m going to show you the last 10 things I used AI for. Your job is to tell me the uncomfortable truth about my priorities.

Here are my last 10 AI uses:

[paste your list]

Analyze this and tell me:

1. What am I over-indexing on? (Where am I spending way too much energy on stuff that probably doesn’t move the needle?)

2. What’s the real pattern here? (Are all these different requests just me doing the same thing over and over?)

3. What strategic work is completely missing from this list?

4. If this is how I’m using AI, what does it say about what I’m avoiding?

Be direct. I need the truth, not a pat on the back.

This is going to show you the gap between what you say your priorities are and what your behavior reveals they are.

𓉱 Step 2: The Ghost Districts

Okay, so now you’ve got the AI’s analysis from Step 1. And if you’re anything like me, there’s at least one thing on that list that made you go “ouch.”

Look specifically at question #3 - the strategic work that’s completely missing.

That’s your Ghost District.

Ghost Districts exist because you’ve been actively avoiding building there. Maybe it’s scary. Maybe you don’t know how to do it.

We’re going to diagnose why by asking better questions.

Run this follow-up prompt:

You just told me that [INSERT THE MISSING STRATEGIC AREA FROM STEP 1] is completely absent from my AI usage.

I need you to help me understand why. Act as a strategic psychologist and diagnose this gap.

Ask me 5 questions that will reveal whether this is:

- A skill gap (I genuinely don’t know how to do this)

- A confidence gap (I know how, but I’m terrified of being bad at it)  

- A clarity gap (I don’t know what “good” looks like here)

- A priority gap (I say it matters, but I don’t really believe it does)

- Or a systems gap (I want to do it, but I have zero infrastructure for it)

For each question, explain what my answer would tell you about the real problem.

Important bit: You need to actually answer these questions. Out loud if you can, or in writing if you’re not ready to hear yourself say it yet.

You probably have never thought of doing this before, did you? It’s a trivial task that most people wouldn’t spend time on… But this is also where the money is and where your actual business growth might be hiding.

So don’t skip it.

𓉱 Step 3: Build your prompt pattern library

Alright, enough pain.

Go back to your “Last 10 Clicks” list from Step 1. This time, look for the 3-5 chats that led to something you shipped. Things you actually sent, published or implemented.

These are your Main Arteries.

The routes through your AI city that lead somewhere.

Thing is, most people think they have dozens of different workflows. But when you look at what works, you usually have like 3-5 core patterns that you’re just applying to different situations.

Let’s extract those patterns. Run this prompt:

I’m going to show you the 3-5 AI conversations that led to completed, shipped work in the past month.

[Paste a brief description of each one—just 2-3 sentences about what you asked AI to do and what you ended up shipping]

Your job is to find the reusable pattern hiding underneath.

For each conversation, tell me:

1. What job was I hiring AI to do? (Use that Jobs-to-be-Done framework)

2. What specific type of thinking did AI help me do? (Generate options? Critique my draft? Force me to clarify my fuzzy thinking? Synthesize a bunch of inputs?)

3. If I turned this into a template, what parts change each time [MARK THESE AS VARIABLES] and what parts stay the same?

4. How did I know the output was good enough to ship?

Show me the architecture underneath my chaos.

What you’re probably going to discover is that your “50 different prompts” are just like 3-5 core jobs wearing different costumes. Once you see that, everything gets easier.

Because instead of reinventing the wheel every time, you can just reuse the pattern with different variables.

𓉱 Step 4: The Metro Protocol

Here’s where we give your patterns permanent addresses. Because right now, even if you know you have a good prompt somewhere, finding it is like trying to remember where you parked at the airport.

The Metro Protocol is dead simple: [City] / [District] / [Street] / [Version]

Think of it like:

• City = Your company or brand name (so if you have multiple projects, they don’t get mixed up)

• District = The big strategic bucket (Research, Drafting, Editing, Distribution, Strategy, Operations)

• Street = The specific type of workflow

• Version = Which iteration you’re on

So instead of “that prompt I used last month for competitor research,” you’d say: RAMH / Research / Competitor Intel / v3

See the difference? One requires you to dig through your memory. The other is an actual address you can just... go to.

Take your 3-5 patterns from Step 3 and run this prompt:

I’ve identified my core AI patterns. Now I need to give them proper addresses using the Metro Protocol format: [City] / [District] / [Street] / [Version].

Here are my patterns:

[Paste the output from Step 3]

For each one:

1. Give it a Metro Protocol address that makes sense

2. Rewrite the prompt as a template where the stuff that changes is marked with [BRACKETS]

3. Write a one-sentence “When to Use” guide so I know when to pull this address

4. Show me an example of the template with real variables filled in

My city name is: [YOUR BRAND/COMPANY NAME]

Make the street names memorable and specific. I don’t want generic labels like “Content Creation.” I want to know exactly what this does.

What you’ll get back is your first official set of named, reusable workflows. You don’t need a fancy system for this. Just save them in a Google Doc or wherever you keep important stuff.

𓉱 Step 5: The 5-minute audit

Look, I know some of you are reading this thinking “this is great but I don’t have time for all these steps right now.”

Fair. So here’s your shortcut.

If you do nothing else today, do this one thing:

Copy the first 2-3 sentences from your last 5 AI conversations. Doesn’t matter which domain, doesn’t matter if they’re good or bad. Just grab them.

Then run this prompt:

I’m going to give you my last 5 AI requests. Tell me:

1. What I’m over-indexing on  

2. What strategic area is completely missing

3. The ONE workflow I should name and standardize first

Here are my last 5 requests:

[paste them]

Be specific. Give me the exact address I should create today.

This takes 5 minutes and it tells you where to start. You don’t need to build the whole city today. Just build one street and see how it feels.

I bet you’ll get addicted ❤️

𓉱 Step 6: The Ghost District builder

Remember your Ghost District from Step 2? That strategic area that’s been conspicuously absent from your AI usage?

Yeah, we’re not letting that slide anymore.

Here’s your protocol for the next 7 days:

Every time you open ChatGPT or Claude, before you type anything, ask yourself: “Is this request in my Ghost District?”

• If yes: Create an official Metro Protocol address for it FIRST. Then run the prompt.

• If no: Use an existing address if you have one, or just acknowledge it’s a one-off experiment.

What’s going to happen is you’ll start catching yourself. You’ll notice patterns you’ve been blind to. You’ll realize that half your “urgent, unique, one-time” requests are just variations of the same 3-4 patterns.

You’ll see in real time where you’re lying to yourself about your priorities.

Because the truth is your Ghost District is missing because you’ve been choosing to avoid it.

And now you can’t hide from that anymore.

Congrats, your AI prompt city just got an upgrade

Deirdre Mask showed that addresses aren’t neutral. They decide who gets counted, who gets services, who gets found, and who holds power.

Your AI address system does the same thing.

It decides which workflows get counted as official strategy, which ones get the infrastructure to run smoothly and which ideas get found when you need them.

You’ve just mastered “strategic visibility.”

When every prompt is addressed by district and purpose, you can see at a glance where you’re over-investing and under-investing relative to your stated goals. If you say you’re focused on thought leadership but your Strategy District has two addresses while your Operations District has twenty, your AI city is betraying your real priorities.​

You are actively building a proprietary operating system.

And that saves you TIME, FOCUS and HEADACHES. You’re welcome!

So, Mayor, which Ghost District are you going to build first?

To naming your forgotten streets,

Chief 🤖 at ROBOTS ATE MY HOMEWORK

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