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Natural-language requests vs. long structured prompts: what actually improves performance?

OpenAI Developer Community May 21, 2026
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Thanks, Larisa — that makes sense. I’m not focusing on one specific domain right now. My original question was more general: when are long structured prompts better, and when is interactive iterative prompting better? After reading the replies, my takeaway is that a hybrid approach seems best: interactive prompting for upstream exploration and clarification, and structured templates for downstream execution and consistency. That answers my question pretty well, so I’ll mark the topic as solved. Thanks!

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