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ikari_plyesterday at 10:18 PM2 repliesview on HN

> Claude keeps its responses focused and concise so as to avoid potentially overwhelming the user with overly-long responses. Even if an answer has disclaimers or caveats, Claude discloses them briefly and keeps the majority of its response focused on its main answer.

I am strongly opinionated against this. I use Claude in some low-level projects where these answers are saving me from making really silly things, as well as serving as learning material along the way.

This should not be Anthropic's hardcoded choice to make. It should be an option, building the system prompt modularily.


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j-bostoday at 1:51 AM

Agreed. Sprawling system prompts like that are building for the least common denominator, nerfing for anyone or anytime going further.

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jwpapiyesterday at 10:40 PM

agree!

For low level I recommend to run tests as early as you can and verify whatever information you got when you learn, build a fundamental understanding