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I've been astonished at how lazy I can be at prompting and still get impressive results with 2026 Claude Code
annzabelle on Hacker News
In the thread “Some thoughts about Anthropic's new cryptanalysis results”, replying to this comment
Helped: Simple natural language prompting without specific skills.
… My last employer had a copilot license that I dabbled in in 2024, and wasn't impressed with, and then I spent the latter half of 2025 and early 2026 budget traveling/hiking a lot. I started at a new company in May, and I've been astonished at how lazy I can be at prompting and still get impressive results with 2026 Claude Code. I can paste entire failure logs with the word "why" lowercase, no question mark, and get into a productive chat session where it significantly speeds up the bug trace. …