Stop Prompting for Answers. Start Prompting for Systems.

by Nat Currier 24 min read
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Excerpt

Two people. Same model. Wildly different results. The difference isn't the AI. It's the operating system they run on top of it: prompts that force structure, adversaries, and audits.

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Nat Currier. "Stop Prompting for Answers. Start Prompting for Systems.." nat.io, 2025-09-07. https://nat.io/blog/llm-prompting-alternative-view-power-users

Structured, multi-turn prompts with adversarial review and audits improve GPT-5 task usefulness by 25-40%, reducing result variance by ~30% compared to one-shot prompting on complex strategic tasks.

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