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Prompting Claude Opus 5.5

207 points · 227 comments · Michelangelo11

  1. bluegatty · · 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. TomGarden · · focus · HN ↗
      Agreed.

      I'm genuinely worried about all our short term investment in mitigating the failure modes of models that may only be SOTA for a few months.

      It's very possible people being 'late' adopting AI may end up with a leg up, not only because they spent more time polishing personal skills during this time, but also because they don't bring all the baggage of 'AI competence' that is becoming irrelevant at breakneck speed.

      1. maipen · · focus · HN ↗
        What personal skills are you referring to?
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