Why it worked
The video leverages a clever and easily replicable "hack" that appeals to users interested in AI and prompt engineering. By showing a direct method to extract valuable prompts from existing code, it offers a tangible benefit and a sense of discovery, making it highly shareable.
Summary
The video demonstrates a trick to "steal" prompts from GitHub by modifying the URL. It shows how to change 'github.com' to 'gitreverse.com' to access a tool that reverse-engineers prompts from code repositories, which can then be used in AI models like Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini.