How to Prompt GPT-5

The AI Daily Brief discusses 11 prompting techniques for GPT-5, a new AI model. It addresses initial user complaints and highlights the model's steerability and instruction-following capabilities. The episode is divided into foundations and agentic toggles, emphasizing the need for explicit and structured prompts. Techniques include telling the model to "think harder," using planning phases, being explicit about desired outcomes, structuring prompts (JSON prompting), asking the model to share its thought process, avoiding conflicting instructions, leveraging the model's iteration capabilities, and metaprompting. The episode also touches on agentic toggles like controlling agentic eagerness and parallel processing and mentions API parameters for reasoning effort and verbosity. The podcast encourages listeners to experiment with these techniques to maximize GPT-5's potential.