Anthropic engineer says most people still prompt frontier models one step at a time
blaizedsouza · x · 2026-07-21
An Anthropic engineer argues that the real bottleneck in AI workflows is not model capability but how people prompt and structure the task.
The post highlights a 20-minute demo showing how to build something that improves itself instead of requiring step-by-step prompting, and pairs it with an article comparing Kimi K3, Claude Fable 5, and GPT-5.6 across different task types. The takeaway is that many users still interact with frontier models in a shallow, manual way that leaves a lot of capability unused.
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