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O1 isn't a chat model (and that's the point)


How Ben Hylak turned from ol pro skeptic to fan by overcoming his skill issue.

He has since launched Dawn Analytics, and continued to publish unfiltered thoughts about o1 — initially as a loud skeptic, and slowly becoming a daily user. Every time I asked a question, I had to wait 5 minutes only to be greeted with a massive wall of self-contradicting gobbledygook, complete with unrequested architecture diagrams + pro/con lists. swyx’s Note: OpenAI does publish advice on prompting o1, but we find it incomplete, and in a sense you can view this article as a “Missing Manual” to lived experience using o1 and o1 pro in practice.

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