The Claude Difference: Nuance Over Hype
Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet has emerged as the developer's favorite for a reason: it follows complex instructions with a precision that often eludes other models. However, to get this performance, you must abandon "chatting" and start "structuring." Claude prompts are at their best when they use clear delimiters, logical blocks, and explicit reasoning steps.
Our guide dives deep into the specific Anthropic-recommended techniques—like using XML tags to separate content from instructions—that allow Claude to process massive context windows (up to 200k tokens) without losing the thread of the conversation.