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Prompting Claude Opus 5.5

207 points · 227 comments · Michelangelo11

  1. mathisfun123 · · focus · HN ↗
    This "how to prompt" shit changes like every 3 months. Remember when earlier this year it was critical to tell Claude to keep going because it would just give up. It's amazing this is really considered a product - imagine having to relearn how to drive your car every 3 months.
    1. ddosmax556 · · focus · HN ↗
      Not sure how you missed that but models are fundamentally changing in features, scope, intelligence, pricing, communication style. Of course it changes every 3 months. Of course there is no product that lasts more than 3 months. We're in a race right now. It won't stop changing for a while.
      1. mathisfun123 · · focus · HN ↗
        > Not sure how you missed that but models are fundamentally changing in features, scope, intelligence, pricing, communication style

        Not sure how you missed it but that's exactly what I'm calling out as asinine.

        > We're in a race right now

        Again: consider the analogy about cars... which are literally used for racing (occasionally).

        1. UrineSqueegee · · focus · HN ↗
          >Not sure how you missed it but that's exactly what I'm calling out as asinine.

          i dont understand how you're framing this. how is this a bad thing exactly? How is it asinine?

          1. mathisfun123 · · focus · HN ↗
            For the third and final time: consider the analogy about cars.
            1. r_lee · · focus · HN ↗
              that's not a useful analogy, it's not like these models are CPUs where the cores just get increase in core count or clock speeds

              they fundamentally change, architecture, the way they're trained etc.

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