11 Tips to Spend Tokens Smarter on GPT-5.5 & Claude 4.7
Stop using old prompts. 11 tips to make GPT-5.5 & Claude 4.7 work smarter, not harder.
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After the new models are released, in addition to discovering significantly improved capabilities, most people still feel that the new versions seem less “obedient” than the old ones. The first reaction is usually that the model has become dumber.
The reality is likely the exact opposite.
OpenAI and Anthropic released their prompt engineering documentation almost simultaneously. On OpenAI’s official website, every new model release—from GPT-4.1 to GPT-5.5—comes with a complete prompt guide explaining how to use the new model effectively.
Anthropic similarly provides a migration guide after each model release, detailing breaking changes, behavioral shifts, and other key differences.
The core message of both documents is the same: Continuing to use old prompting methods with the new models will cause problems.
The models haven’t regressed—they’ve become smarter. It’s our prompting techniques that are still stuck in the era of training “slow students.”
This time, we won’t discuss context engineering, skill engineering, or harness engineering. Instead, we’ll focus on the most commonly used everyday prompts—the single most useful guide for lowering the barrier to AI usage.
