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🔧 Why Your ChatGPT 5 Prompts Feel Broken
The architecture changed. Your prompts didn't. Fix it in 5 steps
Gordon Simle
October 02, 2025
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Good morning.
Thank you for all of the incredible feedback regarding last week’s newsletter. 🙏
It was fun to share the story, and delightful to see the record number of you who used the poll to share that you enjoyed reading it too. I always appreciate hearing from you, and your support meant a lot.
If you missed the link to the Reel, check it out here. And if you love a good post-credit scene as much as I do, watch to the end. 😉
Alright. Onward to today’s issue.
I spent weeks wondering why my ChatGPT 5 outputs seemed worse than those of GPT-4. Then I watched Jeff Su's breakdown on YouTube and realized I'd been prompting it completely wrong. The architecture changed, and most of us missed the memo.
Today, let's fix that.
— Gordon