Be Careful What You Prompt For
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A Simple Lesson in Prompting I asked Claude Code to undertake a task that I knew would take quite a while. It involved lots of reading and I disallowed the use of subagents. So naturally I set up a /goal and I walked away and when I got back, it had finished the goal that I had set - and its context window was 98% full. So I thought: that's pretty lucky, I wonder if it knew that it was about to run out of context. One-Word Response Foot-Gun Asking Claude About Context You your context is 98%…
1Key Takeaways
- A Simple Lesson in Prompting I asked Claude Code to undertake a task that I knew would take quite a while.
- It involved lots of reading and I disallowed the use of subagents.
- So naturally I set up a /goal and I walked away and when I got back, it had finished the goal that I had set - and its context window was 98% full.
- So I thought: that's pretty lucky, I wonder if it knew that it was about to run out of context.
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Prompt and agent patterns spread fast; staying current saves time and token cost. DEV — Prompt Engineering reports that a Simple Lesson in Prompting I asked Claude Code to undertake a task that I knew would take quite a while.
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