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Amanda Caswell

I used the 'Owl' prompt to make ChatGPT slow down — and it instantly gave me smarter answers

ChatGPT-5 Image on a keyboard.

I've been testing ChatGPT-5.5 a lot recently. I've tested it against Claude Opus 4.7 and just recently put it head-to-head against Gemini 3.1 Pro. And while it's smart and fast, it's almost too fast, which makes it less smart at times.

Don't get me wrong, most of the time, speed is what you want. The fast summary, the fast response and fast draft of an email all make sense. But every now and then, I've noticed the speed becomes a problem. The response is too generic, too polished and just skims the surface of what I'm looking for.

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