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Reduce thinking w/ zero quality loss: Opus 5.5 tested plus 3 others, 664 agent runs, up to 29% less thinking

TLDR: 9 rules you can drop into the global instructions of any coding agent (AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, system prompt). Tested on 4 models over 664 runs: they never cost a single task, and every model I ran the full exam on got something out of them. Either it wasted less thinking (up to 29% less) or it…

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  1. 2026-10-06 13:11 · r/PromptEngineering
    Reduce thinking w/ zero quality loss: Opus 5.5 tested plus 3 others, 664 agent runs, up to 29% less thinking

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