Never ask an important question just once. Ask it in many ways, and on multiple models. If they don't agree at least you know you can't rely on these answers. For important questions I run 3-4 Deep Research reports (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity) and then comparative analysis at the end.
Is that how you talk to friends too?
Somewhere the goalpost changed from natural language to prompt engineering and failsafes and audit trails.