Prompting is changing: ChatGPT and others can now take several steps on their own

In recent weeks, several AI tools, including ChatGPT, have shown themselves capable of solving multi-step tasks from one simple message.

This is often called "agentic" work: the AI plans on its own, makes decisions along the way and carries out several actions, without you having to write a detailed instruction for each step.

For you as a private user, this means that over time you can write shorter and more natural messages and still get more complex tasks solved.

For companies, it means AI can take over more connected workflows, not just one-off requests.

You don't need to change anything right now. Just try giving the AI a somewhat more open-ended task next time, and see what it manages to piece together on its own.

Keep an eye on it if you use AI daily in your work. There's reason to reconsider your standard prompts if in a few weeks you find that simpler messages suddenly give markedly better results than the templates you usually use.