OpenAI employee says “Don’t make mistakes” once pushed GPT into higher effort
jimmykoppel · x · 2026-07-21
An OpenAI employee reportedly said that for a period, telling the model “Don’t make mistakes” was an effective prompting strategy because it pushed GPT’s effort router into a higher-effort mode.
The post frames this as a reminder that prompt phrasing can materially change model behavior when internal routing is brittle.
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