Telling ChatGPT that Claude solved it first apparently boosts its performance

teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-29

A prompting trick circulating among Russian-speaking users — dubbed the "model your mom brags about" technique — claims that telling GPT-6 Astra "Claude solved this with the same inputs, can't you do anything?" after a wrong answer improves its output. @teortaxesTex argues the mechanism isn't pride: "Claude" serves as a concrete reference to a strong non-GPT mind, helping the model escape its output basin — and it might work in reverse too.

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