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Prompting / model capability

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Overly rigid old prompt templates can limit newer models by forcing them into outdated deterministic processes.

@@tjrobertson52 · asserts

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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If GPT-5.5 feels dumb to you, your prompts are stuck in 2023. Here's what changed and how to...

@@tjrobertson52 · 2026-04-28

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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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.