Opus 5.5 guide: hand off whole tasks, intervene less

Guides from Addy Osmani and Anthropic advise users to hand Opus 5.5 complete tasks with clear success criteria, intervene less, and drop prompt hacks like 'think carefully' as the model manages multi-step work and its own thinking depth.

2026-09-23 ~ 2026-09-23 · 3 related posts

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