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New Concepts/The Decoder/July 13, 2026 at 5:47 PM

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

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. The article OpenAI's new prompting guide tells users to stop overthinking and start with the result appeared first on The Decoder .

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