Claude Code's Thariq Shihipar says team cut system prompt by 80%

Anthropic recently cut Claude Code’s system prompt by 80%. @trq212 explains why: “As the models have gotten smarter, they need less direction, fewer constraints, and fewer examples. The examples are constraining it because now it’s like, ‘Oh, you want things like this… Show more

working more on a post about what we learned doing this and how you can apply this to your skills and system prompts https://twitter.com/petergyang/status/2078895219534438556