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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. exfalso · · focus · HN ↗
      pi+astra for me. Does absolute wonders. When openai starts to squeeze it's chinese models all the way
      1. bakies · · focus · HN ↗
        they have started to squeeze, with gpt-6 i'm getting waaaay less value out of the subscription. Used to be thousands of dollars a reset and it's down to a few hundred
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