OpenAI's agent upgrade trick: just telling the model to hurry up in the system prompt
Bloated_Plaid · reddit · 2026-10-19
A Reddit user spotted what appears to be a recent OpenAI agent upgrade: injecting time pressure directly into the system prompt — the agent receives instructions like "I need to efficiently execute the task in about 4 minutes." The poster notes rumors that simply saying "hurry up" improves model speed, but didn't expect it to be baked into the system prompt itself rather than handled by a more sophisticated mechanism.
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