After chat GPT-5 launched, millions of users reported getting worse results even though they haven't changed how they prompt.
But that's precisely the problem.
To be clear, chat GPT-5 is a more powerful model, so the same prompts should work better, not worse.
But 95% of users don't know that OpenAI made a fundamental change to GPT-5's architecture, meaning our old prompting techniques now perform worse in the new model.
I spent a month testing GPT-5 with OpenAI's official guides and discovered five simple tips that drastically improve our outputs.
Let's get started.
First, let's quickly cover GPT-5's two biggest changes for some important context.
Update number one, model consolidation.
So previously, Plus users had access to all these different models.
Now they're just three, GPT-5, GPT-5 Thinking Mini, and GPT-5 Thinking.
