Dropping 'think carefully' prompts cut Opus 5.5 first-token latency from 8.2s to 2.1s
minchoi · x · 2026-10-28
Tip #8: Opus 5.5 already controls how much it thinks, so 'think deeply before answering' just adds latency. Removing such instructions cut time-to-first-token from 8.2s to 2.1s in Anthropic's tests with no clear quality drop.
Related event: Anthropic publishes official prompting best practices for Claude Opus 5.5(13 posts)→
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