If your GPT-5 results have felt a little… underwhelming, you’re not imagining things. Pietro Schirano, CEO of Magic Path, recently dropped a comprehensive GPT-5 prompting guide that explains why — and how to fix it. The short version? GPT-5 is way more sensitive to instruction style than earlier models, and most of us are still prompting like it’s GPT-4.

Ready to build a prompt engine inside your AI? Here’s how the pros do it: