alt Hacker Newsclaude package has ten new versions published per week, and one new model every few months, one should definitely not rely on some undocumented tricks around it: it'll change, it'll break deep ultra-specific configurations
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bredren • today at 8:33 AM
It is possible to build automation that efficiently handles low level customization of new versions as they appear.
tstrimple • today at 8:00 AM
This is true, but also "temporal hacks" can make or break "cutting edge" workflows. I don't re-architect my claude instructions every release. But some releases justify examining your existing instructions and making sure they still fit the current model. And it has made a noticeable difference.
in my experience, "undocumented tricks" break as often as documented features
like when they removed "clear context and execute plan" option after releasing 1M opus because "context window is not a problem anymore"