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Anthropic guides users on Claude Opus 5.5 prompting for optimal performance

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Anthropic has released guidance for its Claude Opus 5.5 model, positioning it as a primary tool for knowledge work and advising users to update their prompting strategies. The company suggests removing explicit "think hard" instructions, as the model now manages reasoning depth internally. Users are also encouraged to default to the "Medium" effort setting for most tasks, as it offers comparable or better results than higher settings on previous models at a lower cost. AI

IMPACT Users can optimize Claude Opus 5.5 usage by adjusting prompts and effort settings, potentially reducing costs and improving efficiency.

RANK_REASON Guidance on using an existing model, not a new release.

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Anthropic guides users on Claude Opus 5.5 prompting for optimal performance

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · News ·

    Anthropic positions Claude Opus 5.5 as the default daily driver for knowledge work and lists prompting habits to drop

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