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If GPT-5.5 feels dumb to you, your prompts are stuck in 2023. Here's what changed and how to fix it. #PromptEngineering #ChatGPT #Claude #AI
I think a lot of people haven't realized how smart these models like ChatGPT 5.5 and Opus 4.7 are because they don't know how to talk to them. I see a lot of people saying the models aren't getting any smarter, or even that they're getting dumber, and I think it's because they're talking to them the same way they talk to the older, dumber models. To truly unlock the new capabilities of these models, you need to understand how they're changing, and the sooner the better, cause as this trend continues, it's only gonna become more important. Talking to a more capable model is not dissimilar to talking to a more capable person. When I go back and look at the prompt templates that I wrote two years ago, they're very specific. I was giving the model very specific steps to take and strict, almost deterministic guidelines to follow. I left very little room for creative problem solving or judgm
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I think a lot of people haven't realized how smart these models like ChatGPT 5.5 and Opus 4.7 are because they don't know how to talk to them. I see a lot of people saying the models aren't getting any smarter, or even that they're getting dumber, and I think it's because they're talking to them the same way they talk to the older, dumber models. To truly unlock the new capabilities of these models, you need to understand how they're changing, and the sooner the better, cause as this trend continues, it's only g...
learly understand the goal and they have some reliable heuristic by which they can evaluate themselves, they're incredibly good at figuring out the best process to reach that goal. But if you hand string them by giving them the exact process to follow and how to think about each decision, the output's gonna look a lot like the output from a model one or two years ago.
I think a lot of people haven't realized how smart these models like ChatGPT 5.5 and Opus 4.7 are because they don't know how to talk to them. I see a lot of people saying the models aren't getting any smarter, or even that they're getting dumber, and I think it's because they're talking to them the same way they talk to the older, dumber models. To truly...
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