Comment by andai

>Frontier thinking LLMs can follow ~ 150-200 instructions with reasonable consistency.

Doesn't that mean that Claude Code's system prompt exhausts that budget before you even get to CLAUDE.md and the user prompt?

Edit: They say Claude Code's system prompt has 50. I might have misjudged then. It seemed pretty verbose to me!

The part about smaller models attending to fewer instructions is interesting too, since most of what was added doesn't seem necessary for the big models. I thought they added them so Haiku could handle the job as well, despite a relative lack of common sense.