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You cannot predict which instructions a model needs, so a system prompt has to be discovered by running the thing rather than designed in advance.
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- Boris Cherny Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic
And you don't want to guess what's the instruction that the model needs because you might not predict it correctly. The thing that you want to do is you want to run it.
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