[minimaxir]

The point of the GPT-5 model is that it is supposed to route between thinking/nonthinking smartly. Leveraging prompt hacks such as instructing it to "think carefully" to force routing to the thinking model go against OpenAI's claims.

[Workaccount2]

Just select GPT5-thinking if you need anything done with competence. The regular gpt5 is nothing impressive and geared more towards regular daily life chatting.

[koakuma-chan]

Are you sure? I thought you can only specify reasoning_effort and that's it.