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Newer agent models can reward shorter prompts
OpenAI's migration guidance emphasizes concise instructions, explicit contracts, and less compensating prose for newer models.
Signal contract
- OpenAI's migration guidance emphasizes concise instructions, explicit contracts, and less compensating prose for newer models.
- Prompts accumulated around older failure modes can become noise, so model upgrades should trigger controlled prompt reduction and regression testing.
- Novelty: incremental. Verification: source-inspected.
Source ledger
Publishable sources attached to this record.
| # | Source | Role | Public status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | developers.openai.comdocs | primary receipt | source_urls |
Observation
OpenAI's migration guidance emphasizes concise instructions, explicit contracts, and less compensating prose for newer models.
Why it matters
Prompts accumulated around older failure modes can become noise, so model upgrades should trigger controlled prompt reduction and regression testing.
Entities
OpenAI, GPT-5.6
Provenance
This public record is an English normalization of QWG AI Telegram message 2657. The complete original-language post remains the canonical raw message.