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New comment by xpct in "Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7"

xpct — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:03:16 +0000

Well, I'd say it's a reasonable expectation for the model to behave similarly across releases. Am I wrong to assume that?

I imagine the system prompt can correct some training artifacts and drive abnormal behavior to the mean in the dimensions that Anthropic deems fit. So it's either that they are responding to their brittle training process, or that they chose this direction deliberately for a different reason.

New comment by xpct in "Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7"

xpct — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:13:42 +0000

Decision fatigue may honestly be a learnt artifact from RLHF, which is discouraging.

New comment by xpct in "Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7"

xpct — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:10:38 +0000

Sure, but now we have to remodel whatever bias we want for our use case with every new release because the system prompt changes, whereas the underlying data does not.

New comment by xpct in "Claude Design"

xpct — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:56:30 +0000

I agree with what you're saying, but I imagine products like this one aren't aimed at replacing this. LLMs are partially a dashboard business, and this is just one tool to aim at your boring business data

New comment by xpct in "Claude Design"

xpct — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:50:33 +0000

Do you have examples of "natural" UI that you like?

New comment by xpct in "RAM Has a Design Flaw from 1966. I Bypassed It [video]"

xpct — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:08:57 +0000

I get a similar feeling for when friends send me 2minute+ Instagram reels, it's as if my brain can't engage with the content. I'd much rather read a few paragraphs about the topic, and It'd probably take less time too.

New comment by xpct in "Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions"

xpct — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:21:04 +0000

I'd say autocomplete introduces a certain level of fuzziness into the code we work with, though to a lower degree. I used autocomplete for over a year, and initially it did feel like a productivity boost, yet when I later stopped using them, it never felt like my productivity decreased. I stopped because something about losing explicit intent of my code feels uncomfortable to me.