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The Decoder· Matthias Bastian·· 1 d ago

Anthropic says outdated prompting habits are slowing down Claude Opus 5.5

Anthropic says outdated prompting habits are slowing down Claude Opus 5.5

AI summary

Anthropic has made Claude Opus 5.5 the default model on all paid plans and published a guide that does away with old prompting habits. The main takeaway is to drop "think hard" and start at Medium effort.

Selection record

Not admittedSum of both 116 < twice the threshold 152

Source tier
Media and individuals; this tier's threshold is 76
Pre-filter
passed:Anthropic提示词与模型使用建议

A model scores each item twice, independently, against one written standard, out of 100. An item is admitted only when the two scores add up to twice the threshold. The threshold is set per source tier.

Source: The Decoder · the-decoder.com