ChatGPT: Advanced Workflows
The advanced rung: multi-step chains, working over long source material, custom assistants, and testing prompts like software.
One big prompt vs. a chain of small ones
Big prompts fail in ways you cannot debug Ask for a full competitive analysis in one prompt and you get something plausible and mediocre — and when it is wrong, you have no idea where it went wrong. The advanced move is to stop writing one heroic prompt and start building a chain. What a […]
Keeping it working as everything changes
Three things move underneath a working workflow You ship it, it works, and then — without anyone touching it — it gets worse. Three things change independently, and each has a different signature. The model changes. Providers update and deprecate. Output shape shifts subtly, a phrasing you relied on stops appearing, or the endpoint stops […]