diff --git a/docs/benchmarks.md b/docs/benchmarks.md
index de1bf4c85..4039f9d7a 100644
--- a/docs/benchmarks.md
+++ b/docs/benchmarks.md
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ so that user chat requests are more likely to result in effective changes to the
 
 Improving code editing involves tweaking and experimenting with 
 the "edit format" that aider uses.
-The edit format is a part of the system prompt that specifies how GPT should format code edits in its replies,
+The edit format specifies how GPT should format code edits in its replies,
 and can range from simply "return an updated copy of the whole file" to
 "use the 
 [function calling API](https://openai.com/blog/function-calling-and-other-api-updates)