Anthropic says outdated prompting habits are slowing down Claude Opus 5.5
The Decoder · rss · 2026-11-15
Anthropic has made Claude Opus 5.5 the default model on all paid plans and published a prompting guide that discards old habits. The main takeaway: drop "think hard"-style instructions and start at Medium effort, scaling up only when needed.
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