1. New to prompt engineering and need advice

👤 u/Ramby__  |  2 upvotes  |  2025-08-15  |  🏷️ Quick Question

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Hello everyone, I was just about to get into prompt engineering and I saw that GPT-5 just got released. I've heard that its VERY different from 4o and has recieved a lot of backlash for being worse. I am not well versed on the topic and I just wanted to know a few things: - There are a few courses that teach prompt engineering, will they still be releveant for gpt-5? (again I do not know much)

- If they are not releveant, then how do I go about learning and expirmenting with this new model?

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• “Read the prompting guide. Only give the LLM what it needs for the current task at hand. Orchestration (even in single-agent systems) is key here. Only use ~10% of the rated context window size as performance falls of a cliff after that. Regardles…”
• “Good article to start with here: https://www.vellum.ai/blog/gpt-5-prompting-guide For my use cases, GPT5 has been better than 4o. Less hallucinations, especially in thinking mode.”
• “Engineering techniques are sort of model agnostic. But also, GPT 5 is not the only model that matters or even the best model for most things. So... learn.”
• “My good sir. You’re very far behind in this so I’ll give you exactly what to learn today. So don’t bother with courses; you’re going to need to start learning Context-Engineering. Theirs a full course on GitHub. You should write your tools as BAML…”
• “Great Qs! Prompt eng principles largely carry over between models since the core idea is about interacting effectively with LLMs. GPT-5 may need tweaks in approach due to its new features and limitations. Perhaps explore communities or forums where u…”

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