OpenAI startup engineering lead shares how prompt fixes sped up agents 50%
jxnlco · x · 2026-09-11
Wulfie Bain, who leads OpenAI's Applied AI Engineering for startups internationally, shares lessons from fixing bad prompts at even top-tier startups.
- Some agents were sped up by 50% after prompt fixes
- Others saved millions of dollars in LLM spend
- Full methodology in the linked thread
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