Anthropic Engineers Say Build Self-Prompting Agent Systems
A viral thread quoting an Anthropic engineer argues that instead of hand-writing prompts for Opus 5.5, developers should build self-prompting agent harnesses with loops, sandboxed tools, and log-based learning—something the engineer says 90% of Anthropic engineers already do.
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