The conventional wisdom is simple: use the biggest model you can afford. Opus for quality, Haiku for speed, Sonnet when you want something in between. The assumption is that model...
Read more →“Think step by step.” It’s one of the most widely repeated pieces of prompt engineering advice. Add a chain-of-thought (CoT) instruction to your system prompt and the model reasons more...
Read more →There’s a running joke in the AI community about people who say “please” and “thank you” to their LLMs. The implication is that it’s sentimental, anthropomorphizing—treating a statistical model like...
Read more →A few days ago I published “Compress Your CLAUDE.md”, arguing that you should strip human-readable formatting from your CLAUDE.md files to save 60-70% of context bloat. The logic seemed sound:...
Read more →Matt Pocock recently put out a video called “Never Run claude /init” about managing your CLAUDE.md files to avoid context rot. The core argument: claude /init generates verbose boilerplate that...
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