Anthropic says "double-check your work" is now an anti-pattern. I counted 125 of those lines in my own config and cannot tell which ones matter.
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Anthropic published a post about cutting cost and improving performance on their platform, and one part of it landed on me directly: the instructions we add to make a model try harder are now working against us. We all do it. Double-check your work. Be maximally thorough. Older models needed that,…
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