Prompting Trick: Tell Claude the Codebase Is Its Own for Bolder Refactors

Simon Willison highlighted a tip from Claude Fable 5.2's official prompting docs: telling the model the codebase is its own makes it refactor boldly, whereas calling it someone else's leads to conservative edits.

2026-11-10 ~ 2026-11-11 · 2 related posts

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