Claude Code creator Boris Cherny shares new prompting rules: stop writing GPT-3 era mega-prompts
aakashgupta · x · 2026-10-31
Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, shared the prompting rules he considers most important. The key insight: many people are still stuck in the past, prompting Opus 5.5 as if it were GPT-3 — writing book-length mega prompts with few-shot examples and chain-of-thought for simple tasks. That was smart a few years ago, but no longer the optimal meta.
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