---
title: "Reddit called OpenAI's new prompts 'garbage'. So I had to rewrite them..."
description: "5 source-backed AI claims from Reddit called OpenAI's new prompts 'garbage'. So I had to rewrite them..., with key statistics, context, and the original AI…"
url: "https://kbanc.com/claims-library/reddit-called-openais-new-prompts-garbage-so-i-had-to-rewrite-them"
source: "https://aiadopters.club/p/reddit-called-openais-new-prompts"
date: "2025-10-02"
topics: ["strategy", "tools", "implementation"]
generated: "2026-08-31"
---

# Reddit called OpenAI's new prompts 'garbage'. So I had to rewrite them...

By Kamil Banc | October 2, 2025

## Claims

1. **OpenAI Launches Prompt Packs** (source summary): OpenAI released curated Prompt Packs for sales, HR, engineering, marketing, and nine other job functions.
2. **Reddit Criticizes Prompt Packs** (source summary): Reddit users criticized the Prompt Packs within 48 hours as garbage, basic, and low quality.
3. **The C.O.R.E. Model** (Kamil's interpretation): The C.O.R.E. model combines Context, Objective, Role, and Examples to transform vague requests into contextual prompts.
4. **Question Layering Technique** (Kamil's interpretation): Question layering embeds analytical, critical, and procedural thinking steps before requesting final output from the AI.
5. **Workflow Thinking Approach** (Kamil's interpretation): Workflow thinking treats projects as one continuous conversation so each output becomes input for the next step.

## Evidence

### Quote
> "The real problem is not that the prompts exist. It's that they treat prompt engineering as a copy-paste exercise rather than a structured thinking discipline." - Kamil Banc

### Key Statistics
- **48 hours**: Timeframe within which Reddit users criticized OpenAI's newly released Prompt Packs
- **13 job functions**: OpenAI released curated prompt libraries covering sales, HR, engineering, marketing, and nine other functions
- **14 workflow prompts**: The author's full guide includes ready-to-use workflow prompts for strategy, marketing, product, and HR
- **50 messages**: The guide claims context engineering keeps AI conversations sharp across 50 messages instead of degrading after three

## Context
The article responds to community backlash against OpenAI's Prompt Packs, using Reddit criticism as evidence that plug-and-play templates fail without situational context. Kamil Banc, a practitioner writing for his 'Adopter' newsletter audience, proposes the C.O.R.E. framework as a four-component alternative that grounds AI requests in business specifics like competitive positioning and sales objections. His methodology emphasizes treating AI work as a chained workflow rather than isolated tasks, with question layering forcing the model to show intermediate reasoning before final answers. For practitioners, the practical application is shifting from template collection toward understanding context architecture, demonstrated through a B2B SaaS competitive battlecard example. The claims about the framework's effectiveness are the author's practitioner judgment rather than independently validated findings.

## Source
- Original: [Reddit called OpenAI's new prompts 'garbage'. So I had to rewrite them...](https://aiadopters.club/p/reddit-called-openais-new-prompts)
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