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ToxSec's avatar

“The guide says Claude 4.x models “pay close attention to details and examples.” This means: if your examples show a behavior, Claude will replicate it—even if your instructions say otherwise. Audit your examples.”

i love writing like this because it’s lands on tactical and actionable steps. great piece ty.

Ilia Karelin's avatar

Thank you, appreciate the comment! And congratulations on your recent growth, keep the ball rolling.

Dr Sam Illingworth's avatar

This is brilliant Ilia. Thank you so lux for laying this out, especially the research structure. I am going to share this with some of my academic colleagues as I think they will find it of great value. 🙏

Ilia Karelin's avatar

Thank you Sam for supporting and reading it! Appreciate you!

James Presbitero's avatar

Very useful piece! Saveddddt

Ilia Karelin's avatar

Appreciate you James! Thank you.

Joel Salinas's avatar

Masterpiece!!

Ilia Karelin's avatar

Haha thank you Joel!

Ashwin Francis's avatar

Great article! I appreciate the brevity in your writing while giving readers options for both aggressive and conservative implementation methodologies. One takeaway for me was your tip on compactification, I always let CC do this step, moving forward I’ll start letting it build context from the existing files.

Rainbow Roxy's avatar

Fascinating, I always found Claude a bit too literal sometimes, but your explanation about the 'Core Principle: Claude 4.x Is Literal' really cristallizes why good promting is more about explicit instruction following than conversational inference.