Apparently because of how Claude is trained, even the system level prompts go through as XML, it works better with XML "prompting" so I figured I could have it write plans in XML. I need to update my ticketing tool to output XML maybe by default.
replyhttps://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1psxuv7/anthropic...
Comments later in thread say markdown works just as fine and that it’s more important to organize your plan into sections.
replyAlso just think about it, why would a model trained on the world’s corpus of text (that isnt formatted in xml) perform better with XML? It would be a better study if that post tested markdown, org, xml, json, etc. 10 times to see if their is a difference
Anthropic’s best practices still include the use of XML: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt...
replyA year or so ago XML worked more reliably for long-lived prompt instructions. Now it is cargo culting.
replyXML stands for Xtra ML....
replyI'd like to switch to a sales career--can you give me any pointers?
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