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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. buckle8017 · · focus · HN ↗
        Don't use opus 5.5 at high. Medium is about as good as 5.0 was at high.
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