OpenAI's new prompting guide tells users to stop overthinking and start with the result

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OpenAI has released a prompting guide for everyday users, not developers.

Instead of rigid formulas, it suggests four optional building blocks: goal, context, format, and constraints.

The core advice is simple: describe the result you want, not the steps to get there.

It's the first time OpenAI covers both Chat and Codex in a single framework.

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