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Creator of Anthropic's Claude Code wants you to stop micromanaging your AI
Boris Cherny, creator of Anthropic's Claude Code, advises users to avoid micromanaging AI by providing overly specific instructions. Instead, he recommends focusing on outcomes and allowing modern models to determine the execution path. Andrew Ng of Google Brain previously advocated a similar approach, termed 'lazy prompting,' as models evolve to handle higher-level tasks independently.
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