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From Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code’s Prompt · ≈14:47
Names over-specified step-by-step prompting as the most common modern mistake and gives the three-part structure to replace it with.
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- Names over-specified step-by-step prompting as the most common modern mistake and gives the three-part structure to replace it with.
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un-hobbling Claude and fixing this product overhang? >> So, there's a couple of things that I would think about. One is you should give the model slightly harder tasks than what you think it can do. I think a a really common mistake that I see is people are using Claude code, they're using Claude, and they they just give it like way over we specific instructions. They're like, "I want you to do this, but I want you to do it in this way, this way, this way. You must do like one, then two, then three, then four." And for modern models, that's actually really not the way to do it. You want to go a little bit higher level. You want to describe the task, you want to describe the guardrails, you want to describe like the exit criteria, and then just go with the model cook. And come back in a little bit. And I think it'll it'll surprise you. Like and again, like this is just not something that would have worked 6 months ago, but it does work today.
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