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comboytoday at 1:35 PM1 replyview on HN

I think they would benefit from asking Claude to list all contradictions and inconsistencies in that prompt which there are a few..

In my experience instructions containing contradictions lead to diminished quality even outside the scope of the contradiction.


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conceptiontoday at 2:07 PM

That’s interesting because they explicitly mention that as an issue in their prompting guidance for 5 - https://claude.com/blog/the-new-rules-of-context-engineering...