Anthropic says it cut 80 percent of Claude Code's system prompt because Fable 5 models "want a smaller system prompt"

Anthropic has cut the system prompt for Claude Code by 80 percent. According to staffer Tariq Shihipar, the new Fable 5 models need fewer instructions and examples. Guidelines can even hold the models back because they're "more imaginative" than what they're given. Instead of…

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