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Prompting Claude Opus 5.5

207 points · 227 comments · Michelangelo11

  1. skeledrew · · focus · HN ↗
    All that keeps jumping out at me is how they've set it to refuse giving users thinking tokens and prompts for full reasoning in output. Just drives me further away; I may not stop using Claude completely for now, but I'll be moving even more of my primary workload to Chinese providers. That's where openness and freedom is now at.
    1. rajeevk · · focus · HN ↗
      What Chinese models/providers are you using for this? I'm hitting Claude's weekly limits much sooner than I used to with roughly the same workload, so I'm interested in trying alternatives, especially ones with strong coding/agentic performance.
      1. arcanemachiner · · focus · HN ↗
        Get yourself an OpenCode Go subscription and give DeepSeek Flash 4.1 a shot.

        A common tactic is to used a big brain model like Opus for planning and reviewing, and a cheaper model for execution.

        1. fosron · · focus · HN ↗
          Been using DeepSeek Flash 4.0 and 4.1 for some random sideprojects via OC GO, its a great deal and for non-corporate work it's really great!
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