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Simon Willison
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2026-04-25 04:13:36
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GPT-5.5 Prompting Guide Pushes Fresh Prompt Baselines

This post highlights OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 prompting guidance and the key message is that GPT-5.5 should be treated as a new model family, not a drop-in swap for older GPT-5 variants. For indie developers, the practical takeaway is to re-baseline prompts, test tool flows again, and add brief progress updates for long-running agentic tasks to improve product UX.

[ KEY POINTS ]
  1. OpenAI recommends rebuilding from a minimal prompt baseline instead of reusing prompts tuned for GPT-5.2 or GPT-5.4.
  2. A short user-visible progress update before multi-step tool use is presented as a simple UX improvement for long-running tasks.
  3. For small teams, migration cost is less about changing the model string and more about prompt retuning, regression testing, and validating tool/output behavior.
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