#78 Robin: Stop Babysitting Your AI - 5 New Rules for Prompting Claude Opus 5 and Beating Fable 5
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You’re probably prompting Claude Opus 5 completely wrong, and it’s quietly draining your time, patience, and API tokens. The old "step-by-step" prompting advice from last year is officially dead—if you want to get actual work done today, you need to stop micromanaging your models.
We’ll talk about:
The Opus 5 Shift: The 5 new rules for modern prompt engineering, and why giving the AI the entire job upfront absolutely crushes the old breadcrumb method.
The "Double-Check" Trap: Why telling…
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