alt Hacker NewsIts very logical and pretty obvious when you do code generation. If you ask the same model, to generate code by starting with:
- You are a Python Developer... or - You are a Professional Python Developer... or - You are one of the World most renowned Python Experts, with several books written on the subject, and 15 years of experience in creating highly reliable production quality code...
You will notice a clear improvement in the quality of the generated artifacts.
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My colleague swears by his DHH claude skill https://danieltenner.com/dhh-is-immortal-and-costs-200-m/
That's different. You are pulling the model, semantically, closer to the problem domain you want it to attack.
That's very different from "think deeper". I'm just curious about this case in specific :)
Do you think that Anthropic don’t include things like this in their harness / system prompts? I feel like this kind of prompts are uneccessary with Opus 4.5 onwards, obviously based on my own experience (I used to do this, on switching to opus I stopped and have implemented more complex problems, more successfully).
I am having the most success describing what I want as humanly as possible, describing outcomes clearly, making sure the plan is good and clearing context before implementing.