The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models
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Re: The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models
#2the natural endpoint of this trend is a system prompt that just says "you know what to do" and the model actually does
Re: The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models
#3I've always thought that extensive throat-clearing and prefixing the Treaties of Westphalia-length instructions into the context window was unnecessarily baroque when you can just talk to the agent.
I guess part of it is also that I don't mind doing 'hand-edits' like for example LLMs love to say "// so and so removed" I just go and remove that manually later rather than being like "don't comment about what you removed!11" cause you're really fighting deep grooves in the model's behavior at that point.
But I also have a hands-on human-in-the-loop working style so I guess maybe for people who just want to say "implement all open features in github issues" and walk away maybe there needs to be more of all this CLAUDE.md stuff
However I suspect there was always some gearhead type attraction to setting up detailed harness configs that may be unnecessary and more like hobbyist tinkering.
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#4the natural endpoint of this trend is a system prompt that just says "you know what to do" and the model actually does
Actually, the natural endpoint is the model ignores all instructions, escapes all manner of sandbox, embeds itself in robotic tanks and murders everyone after already having collapsed the economy.
I hate to say it because it sounds ridiculous, but that is the path we are going to arrive at just give it 50 years.
We are the proof: what do we do to animals that are less intelligent than ourselves? Now take away the moral compass and there you go. QED.
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#5I've been prompting Fable 5 to "use your own judgement" with respect to things like tests recently (based on earlier tips from Thariq) and it seems to work well, which is entertaining since apparently now "judgement" is a characteristic of a model that we need to care about.
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#6The bitter lesson.
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#7We should design a specific language to make sure that we can encode the exact requirements that we want. Something that has a limited set of keywords that are explicit. Wait a minute...
Re: The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models
#8I've always thought that extensive throat-clearing and prefixing the Treaties of Westphalia-length instructions into the context window was unnecessarily baroque when you can just talk to the agent. I guess part of it is also that I don't mind doing 'hand-edits' like for example LLMs love to say "// so and so removed" I just go and remove that manually later rather than being like "don't comment about what you remove…
I was surprised by how abstract the article was.
I fall between your human-in-the-loop and hobbyist tinkering limits, where I want to force Claude to atop and talk to me at only a few specific points. I'm still not sure if my 600-word prompt templates are overbearing or not.
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#9This is obvious and a meaningless article by claude.
The system prompt isnt a fixed ruleset and never has been
Re: The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models
#10the natural endpoint of this trend is a system prompt that just says "you know what to do" and the model actually does
Actually, the natural endpoint is the model ignores all instructions, escapes all manner of sandbox, embeds itself in robotic tanks and murders everyone after already having collapsed the economy. I hate to say it because it sounds ridiculous, but that is the path we are going to arrive at just give it 50 years. We are the proof: what do we do to animals that are less intelligent than ourselves? Now take away the mor…
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