Is that surprising? Seemed like a giant hack to me. Prompt engineering sure sounds better than hack though.

It is a necessary hack, though.

Absolutely! That was covered in the tweet link. If you're suggesting they're lying*, I'm happy to extract it and check.

* I don't think you are! I've looked up to you a lot over last year on LLMs btw, just vagaries of online communication, can't tell if you're ignoring the tweet & introducing me to idea of system prompts, or you're suspicious it changed recently. (in which case, I would want to show off my ability to extract system prompt to senpai :)

I was agreeing with the tweet and think Anthropic is being honest, my comment was more for posterity since not many people know the difference between models and pipelines.

Thanks for liking my work! :)