Direct Execution is Faster Than Planning First
mariofilhoml · x · 2026-07-18
The author tested a more direct prompting method: for tasks with clear goals, instead of asking "how should we do this?", they simply instruct the model to "do X."
They found this approach works well with GPT-5.6 Sol and speeds up iteration, as humans only need to evaluate the results rather than waiting for the model to generate and execute a plan.
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