Category: Prompt Engineering
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Or: How OpenAI Optimized for Benchmarks and Broke My Workflow I’ve used ChatGPT since GPT-3. Not casually, but as a core part of my research and writing workflow. Image generation became available in version 4o, and I integrated it: “See this article? Generate an image that represents it.” Simple, conversational, reliable. It worked. Until three…
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Dr. Randal Olson recently published research showing that modern AI models routinely flip their answers when challenged with a simple follow-up: “Are you sure?” Ask an AI a question. Get an answer. Then ask if it’s sure. Watch it suddenly reverse itself, retract its conclusion, or hedge into oblivion as though you’ve triggered existential dread.…