How I Work Designing prompts that save you hours every week with Dropbox’s Morgan Brown
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Sep 17, 2025 Morgan Brown, Vice President of Product and Growth at Dropbox, shares his journey of harnessing AI for personal and professional challenges. He created CarbScan to help his son with type 1 diabetes, pioneering a photo-based carb estimator. Morgan discusses eliminating grunt work through automation like email triaging and daily AI news scans. He emphasizes the importance of effective prompt design, using LLMs as thought partners, and the necessity for human feedback to validate AI outputs, allowing for more innovative strategies and collaboration.
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CarbScan: Solving Dinner Chaos
- Morgan built CarbScan after his six-year-old son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and mealtime carb estimates became chaotic.
- He used image input + OpenAI plus Calorie King references to return quick carbohydrate estimates for family meals.
Use AI To Write Requirements And Plans
- Use AI as a software thought partner: draft clear product requirements in ChatGPT then paste them into a code-builder like Replit.
- Ask the model to review and produce an implementation plan before approving the build.
Automate Meeting Recaps
- Automate meeting follow-ups by turning recorded Zoom transcripts into weekly summaries of commitments and risks.
- Use those summaries to reset context and track promised follow-ups without manual notes.
