Though the smartness comes with a cost: all of the prompts that were written for the old realtime voice model now need to be revised for a m…

Ethan Mollick discusses a tradeoff in OpenAI's newer realtime voice model, where improved capabilities require developers to revise prompts that were written for the previous version. The post highlights that while the new model is more capable, the migration requires additional work and adjustment from users who built systems on the earlier iteration.

Source: Ethan Mollick (X) | 2026-05-12