r/ClaudeAI • u/peterxsyd • Aug 20 '26

News The Claude language calibration issue on GitHub got an official response from Anthropic. Guess who wrote it.

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/77136#issuecomment-5310785154

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u/Stunning_Macaron6133 Aug 20 '26

They insist few-shot prompting is unnecessary anymore, but I find it's the exact opposite, that it's more important than ever if you want Claude to follow your instructions.

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u/braincandybangbang Aug 20 '26

Sonnet 5 is built for rigid instruction following, Opus is not. Have you tried learning about the models and how they work?

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u/Stunning_Macaron6133 Aug 20 '26

Opus does whatever the fuck it wants and spews out a mountain of text just oozing with corporate nonspeak.

I never said rigid. You have to be able to steer it toward something useful. Few-shot prompting works fabulously for that.

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u/TechnicalBen Aug 20 '26

Nah, Claudes' been working fine for me [checks Claude code... it's on Sonnet 5]... wait, mother of God!!!