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Prompting Claude Opus 5.5

207 points · 227 comments · Michelangelo11

bluegatty · 1790588115 · focus · HN ↗
This is a failure of the AI foundries; if we have to use totally different prompting techniques for every model, this wont work.
AI is rapidly saturating it's ability to be useful and these products need to start to mature.
It's not 'fun' to manage 50 different broken MCPs and their variety of ways in which they are broken.
It was 'fun' at the start, now it's just 'broken technology'.
Astra and Opus 5.5 are the 'starting point' for the next era of AI where we expect robust tooling.
1. saretup · 1790590180 · focus · HN ↗
  > It was 'fun' at the start, now it's just 'broken technology'.
  It was even more 'broken' at the start. We overcame some of the issues by 'prompt engineering', which is needed less in the newer, smarter models.
  1. bluegatty · 1790591232 · focus · HN ↗
    Of course - what I mean to say is that we did not perceive it as broken.
    The first combustion engine was a miracle. It only becomes 'broken' when we evaluate in some kind of applicable context.

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