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dandakayesterday at 9:57 PM1 replyview on HN

Models work best when they have short instructions and no noise. "Conversation [may] contain" also means "conversation has a lot of noise". It degrades performance and increases cost.

I use handoff skill to ask model to write a prompt for itself.


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pertymcpertyesterday at 10:20 PM

The applicability of your advice is very model dependent. Some like Claude have very good long context performance, whereas others they fall off much quicker past some threshold.

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