Watch this five-step chain unfold. Step 1: "List 20 trending topics in teen science education." Step 2: "Pick the three most engaging topics from that list and write a one-sentence hook for each." Step 3: "Take the best hook and expand it into a 200-word blog post outline." Step 4: "Write the full blog post from that outline." Step 5: "Create three social media posts promoting this blog, each under 280 characters."

In five minutes, you went from zero to a complete content package: blog post plus social media promotion. Each step built on the previous one, like dominoes falling in sequence.

This is prompt chaining, and it's how professionals use AI to accomplish in minutes what used to take hours. Instead of one big, complicated prompt, you break the work into a chain of simple, focused steps.