Prompt extracted from Anthropic eng lead's tutorial: make Claude push you to be more ambitious first
kieranklaassen · x · 2026-10-16
Felix Rieseberg, engineering lead on Claude at Anthropic, published a tutorial on 'being more ambitious' with AI. A user had Claude distill it into a reusable pre-task prompt covering ALTITUDE (surface the real outcome and required access), DEPTH (what top practitioners would do, tools, and an unreasonably-high-but-achievable target), and RANGE (restate the task as verbs). A practical way to upgrade any build task before starting.
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