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Was there a change in Claude Code system prompt at that time that nudges Claude into simplistic thinking?

Here is a gist that tries to patch the system prompt to make Claude behave better https://gist.github.com/roman01la/483d1db15043018096ac3babf5...

I haven’t personally tried it yet. I do certainly battle Claude quite a lot with “no I don’t want quick-n-easy wrong solution just because it’s two lines of code, I want best solution in the long run”.

If the system prompt indeed prefers laziness in 5:1 ratio, that explains a lot.

I will submit /bug in a few next conversations, when it occurs next.

by Avamander22 minutes ago|

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That Gist does explain quite a few flaws Claude has. I wonder if MEMORY.md is sufficient to counteract the prompt without patching.

by dev_l1x_be31 minutes ago|

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Holy sweet LLM, this gist is crazy. Why did they do this to themselves? I am going to try this at home, it might actually fix Claude.

by murkt19 minutes ago|

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Remember Sonnet 3.5 and 3.7? They were happy to throw abstraction on top of abstraction on top of abstraction. Still a lot of people have “do not over-engineer, do not design for the future” and similar stuff in their CLAUDE.md files.

So I think the system prompt just pushes it way too hard to “simple” direction. At least for some people. I was doing a small change in one of my projects today, and I was quite happy with “keep it stupid and hacky” approach there.

And in the other project I am like “NO! WORK A LOT! DO YOUR BEST! BE HAPPY TO WORK HARD!”

So it depends.

by enigmo1 hours ago|

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