diff --git a/src/agent/prompter.js b/src/agent/prompter.js
index 2bbf20b..12a139b 100644
--- a/src/agent/prompter.js
+++ b/src/agent/prompter.js
@@ -35,8 +35,6 @@ export class Prompter {
                 chat.api = 'anthropic';
             else if (chat.model.includes('meta/') || chat.model.includes('mistralai/') || chat.model.includes('replicate/'))
                 chat.api = 'replicate';
-            // OH GOD GROQ HAS A LOT MORE MODELS NOW WHERE DID THEY ALL COME FROM
-            // i literally need to use a "groq/" thing because theres so many
             else if (chat.model.includes("groq/") || chat.model.includes("groqcloud/"))
                 chat.api = 'groq';
             else
diff --git a/src/models/gpt.js b/src/models/gpt.js
index 979601a..67511d2 100644
--- a/src/models/gpt.js
+++ b/src/models/gpt.js
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import OpenAIApi from 'openai';
 import { getKey, hasKey } from '../utils/keys.js';
+import { strictFormat } from '../utils/text.js';
 
 export class GPT {
     constructor(model_name, url) {
@@ -18,26 +19,17 @@ export class GPT {
     }
 
     async sendRequest(turns, systemMessage, stop_seq='***') {
-
         let messages = [{'role': 'system', 'content': systemMessage}].concat(turns);
-        
 
         const pack = {
             model: this.model_name || "gpt-3.5-turbo",
+            messages,
             stop: stop_seq,
         };
         if (this.model_name.includes('o1')) {
-            // system role and stop_seq not supported by o1 models
-            messages = messages.map((msg) => {
-                if (msg.role == 'system') { 
-                    msg.role = 'user';
-                    msg.content = 'SYSTEM: ' + msg.content;
-                }
-                return msg;
-            });
+            pack.messages = strictFormat(messages);
             delete pack.stop;
         }
-        pack.messages = messages;
 
         let res = null;
         try {