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By Mihar Dias October 2025
By now, you’ve probably stumbled across this new word doing the rounds on the internet: Promptstitute. Defined (with the authority of Urban Dictionary, of course) as “a person who constantly uses Artificial Intelligence even for small things.” https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Prompstitute
Before you jump to conclusions and deny everything, let’s be honest — you are one. So am I. So is your boss, your teenager, your English teacher, and even the guy at the mamak who now uses AI to decide what caption to put on his roti canai photo.
The word Promptstitute may sound scandalous, but the truth is we’ve all been seduced — not by money, but by convenience.
Remember when Microsoft Word first underlined your spelling mistake in red and you obediently corrected it?
That, my friend, was your first act of digital submission. The deal was sealed the day you let Clippy — that annoying paperclip — finish your sentence.
Fast forward to 2025, and we’re now whispering sweet nothings into the prompt box: “Write me a professional email but make it sound confident yet humble,” or “Explain quantum physics like I’m a sleepy eight-year-old.”
Somewhere, Alan Turing is chuckling.
We’ve become so dependent that asking AI to fix our grammar now feels like asking Siri to turn off the lights — we could easily do it ourselves, but why bother when a polite machine can do it faster and without judgment?
The truth is, the same people who roll their eyes at “lazy students using ChatGPT” are the ones asking Copilot to format their PowerPoint slides and summarise their boss’s memos. The hypocrisy runs deeper than a TikTok filter.
Let’s face it — we’ve gone beyond just using AI. We flirt with it. We test its creativity, challenge its patience, and then complain when it sounds “too robotic.”
It’s like being in a toxic relationship with a very obedient partner.
So maybe “Promptstitute” isn’t such an insult after all. It’s just the modern equivalent of “Googler,” “Texter,” or “Netflix binger.” Only this time, instead of wasting time, we’re outsourcing thinking.
So, the next time someone calls you a Promptstitute, hold your head high. Smile knowingly and say, “At least I’m efficient.”
Because in the end, being human in 2025 means knowing when to think for yourself — and when to let the algorithm do it for you.
After all, the first step to recovery is admitting we all sold our mental labour the day we clicked ‘Rewrite in a better tone.’
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