Nate B. Jones says ChatGPT 5.1 follows instructions much more precisely than before. Enrico Schaefer argues this means you need to completely rethink your prompts to get a 10x to 20x productivity boost.
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So Nate makes the following point. There's been a lot of talk and chatter about the changes that occurred in 5.1 and how you can set personality. But his view, and I agree with it, is that the real change in 5.1 that you need to understand in order to modify your workflow is that it is going to follow instructions much more precisely and that you need to change the way you build your instructions, your prompts, if you want to get the most out of these. Tools. OpenAI has now given you the ability to go from 10x to 20x by doing one simple thing: improving your prompting, improving your prompt engineering. So let's dive into it.