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This content provides a practical guide to effectively prompting Claude AI models (Code, Opus 4.5) by detailing ten actionable techniques to elicit higher-quality, more relevant, and less generic outputs.
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How can you get more out of Claude Code
and Claude Opus 4.5? Well, I've got good
news from you. Anthropic has actually
over the last 12 months have been
posting in their in their docs, blog
posts, kind of teasing on X about how
you can prompt these products to really
get the most out of it. But the thing
is, people haven't put it in a full
guide. So, I did the hard work to make
it easy on everyone. By the end of this
episode, you will learn 10 techniques
for how to prompt Claude to get the most
out of it. Super simple techniques
anyone can learn. I'm going to show you
real examples, easy to understand, and
[music] frameworks to help you crush it
with Claude code and Opus 4.5. Let's get
>> So, the first tip is I know this is
going to this is going to upset a few
people, but the tone of collaboration is
really important. You're going to want a
friendly and clear and firm tone because
that yields better results and more
direct results. So, what's an example? A
vague request might be something like
fix this grammar in this now. You know,
but the problem with that is, you know,
o it leads to overly cautious pre-anned
or basically just less helpful responses
as the model tries to deescalate.
Politeness can sometimes result in
chatty, less direct answers. Now, if you
do, you know, an architected brief, and
this is what the folks at Anthropic
suggest you do, do something like,
"Please review the following text for
grammatical errors and suggest
corrections. My goal is to make it sound
more professional and confident. This is
direct, this is respectful, and it
provides context, which is what
anthropic needs in order to get you the
result, you know, that you want. So,
really important. I know some of us are
just kind of mean to our LLMs. I've been
there, you know, but treat it like a
teammate, right? You would never want to
be mean to a teammate, uh, especially if
you want to get them to produce. So uh
rule rule one of 10 uh is the tone of
collaboration. Rule two of 10 is the
principle of explicit explicit explicitness.
explicitness.
So state your request as a clear
actionoriented command with all the
necessary details. So and I used to do
this actually. I would I would do like a
vague request like I need a bunch of
blog post ideas. But the problem is it's
passive. It's not specific. And then you
just get this generic AI slop.
Architected brief. What's the
difference? Okay. Generate 10 blog post
titles about the impact of remote work
on urban planning. The title should be
engaging for an audience of city
officials and real estate developers.
This prompt uses an action verb.
Generate. You're going to you're going
to want to, you know, use action verbs a
lot. It specifies the quantity 10 and
target audience. Those are the three
things that you're going to need. gener
action verb uh the quantity and a target
audience. Every highlighted phrase adds
a layer of useful constraint. This works
extremely well. Three on 10. A well the
rule here is a well-defined box produces
a more creative result than an empty
field. So a vague request would be
something like write a short story about
a detective in in the future. Problem is
the possibilities are infinite and that
leads to cliche AI slop unfocused
output. Architected brief. What's the
difference? Write a short story no more
than 500 words in the style of Raymond
Chandler. You can even do like in the
style of Ernest Hemingway meets Raymond
Chandler. Or you can even put three or
four or five different people. The story
must feature a robot detective
investigating a data theft on Mars. Do
not use the word cyber. So, you've added
constraints on length, constraints on
style, constraints on character,
constraints on settings, and even
specific words to force the AI AI into
more creative and specific solution. I
know this takes more time. I know that
you know it's kind of measure twice and
cut once, but you will get more if you
define the B boundaries.
Number four, the rule is draft, plan,
then act. Use the AI to generate an
outline or roughed version first. So,
don't try to get a perfect fi final
product in one go. I know we all want to
one prompt it and just it feels so good
to one prompt it. I've been there. But,
uh, you know, the reality is working
with the AI to create and then refine a
plan or outline is a way more reliable
path to a high quality result, and
that's what we're out for. This lets you
course correct early. So, think of it
like this. The initial prompt might be,
I need to write a report on the benefits
of a 4day work week. Ask for a plan.
Step one, first propose an outline for
this report. Then refine the plan. Step
two, that's a good start. In section
two, please add a subpoint about
employee retention. Step three, uh you
can do you step three is the execution
layer. Excellent. Now, write the full
report based on this revised outline. So
you you know it takes longer, but the
the al it takes longer. It feels like it
takes longer, but it's actually going to
save you time because you're going to
get a better outcome and you're not
going to have to reprompt and reprompt
and reprompt. If you have a business
that's doing at least $50,000 a month in
revenue, I've got something interesting
for you. It's called offline mode. It's
a 2-day event that me and my team are
putting on at a 20,000 plus foot square
foot mansion. Yes, this is what it looks
like on January 23rd and January 24th in
Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I'll include a
link in the description if you're
interested in coming. But it's basically
for people who have a business that's
kind of cranking, but they really want
to put it in rocket ship mode. They want
to create a set of businesses that
generate tons of money, tons of cash
flow, tons of product market fit, tons
of impact. Um, but they're not just
quite there yet. It's also about, you
know, making your business AI first. How
you can actually, you know, build not
just one product, but multiple products.
And you're going to leave with, you
know, tactical, uh, answers to your
questions. So, um, if that's you and
this sounds interesting, uh, I'll see
you there. Rule rule number five, uh, is
demand structured output. The AI is
fluent in many formats beyond pros. So,
you know, a vague request might be
something like, "List Apollo missions
and some facts about them." So, you're
going to it's it's it's it's basically
going to give you a simple unstructured
paragraph. And that's going to be hard
to parse. Now, an architected brief
might be something like, "Provide the
list of the last three Apollo missions,
15, 16, and 17. For each mission,
include the launch date, the crew
members, and a key specific achievement.
Present this information in a markdown
formatted table." So what you might have
to do is go to something like perplexity
and do uh you know a prompt there to
understand a little more about what you
want an architected brief to look like.
Um but you're going to end up getting
you know a way better output here. Like
you can just see this markdown file if
you're on YouTube. Um also like and
comment if you're liking this sort of
stuff. I'll do more of it. um requesting
a you know so look at this markdown you
know it's just way way better than what
you'd get if you if you did uh did did
something else and just went like a
simple vague sort of thing. So might
take you more time a little bit
initially but again you're going to get
better output six explaining the why. So
the golden rule here is the explaining
the why behind an instruction helps the
AI understand your true intent. So
instead of saying give me five marketing
slogans for a brand new coffee where the
AI basically has no context. It doesn't
know the brand values. It doesn't know
your audience, your community who you're
going after, it doesn't know your unique
selling proposition, do something like
this. Give me five marketing slogans for
a new brand of coffee. The key is that
our beans are ethically sourced from
small independent farms and our target
audience really important you put this
in here is environmentally conscious
millennials. By the way,
it's not just that you put our target
audience is millennials. You have to you
have to define it even even more. Go
niche and then go more even nicher.
You'll get better results. The slogan
should reflect quality and
sustainability. So by providing the why
basically ethically sourced for
conscious millennials the AI can
generate far more relevant and targeted
slogans then you get a better getting
better results. Seven on 10
the art of brevity and verbosity.
So the rule here is explicitly command
the AI to be more or less verbose to
match your needs. So you're in control
of the output length. Use simple direct
phrases to guide the AI. So let's just
show some some different examples. So
maybe you want the expert here. Explain
photosynthesis in detail for a college
biology student. Think step by step to
ensure accuracy. Boom. Look at look at
how uh how expert this looks like. I
mean it's throw it's throwing me back to
you know my chemist my biology and
chemistry days just seeing stuff like
this when I was in school.
Um, maybe you want something that's
brief. Explain photosynthesis. Be
concise and use bullet points. Sometimes
here I'll say like explain like I'm
five. Explain like I'm 13. Explain like
I'm 17. Um, and then you can see the
bullet points. And then here, oh here
the simplifier. Explain photosense like
like I'm 5 years old. So these are three
options. The expert, the brief, the
simplifier. The point here is that you
are in control of your output length and
it is important that you include that in
the prompt. Eight on 10 providing a
scaffold. The rule here is you want to
give the AI you want to give Claude a
template or example to guide its
structure and style. So
let's the vague request would be
something like summarize this article.
But you know this is way better. Look at
this in the architected brief section.
Summarize the following article using
this format. Main thesis, one sentence.
AI fills this in. Key supporting points,
three bullet points. The AI fills this
in. And concluding insight, AI fills
this in. And then paste the text here.
So now you have this rigid structure
ensuring the summary is not only
accurate but is also formatted exactly
as needed. Um, so you know, really really
really
we want the best results. We want the
best final results and just by by saying
this the structure and style it helps.
It's a little bit of scaffolding goes a
long way.
Nine on 10 uh speaking the language. So
using advanced prompting terms can
trigger more sophisticated modes of
operation. So models
um are trained on a vast amount of text
about AI itself. So using terms from the
field activate specific powerful
behaviors. This is like cheat codes. So,
let's talk about a few power phrases
that Anthropic uh has literally told us
to use that most of us are not even
using. Think step by step. So, what's
the use case? Force the model to lay out
the reasoning process often leading to
more accurate results on complex
problem. So, you're going to want to
remember that one. Critique your own
response use case. Ask the model to
perform self-correction. Find flaws.
it's in in its initial draft and improve
it. Uh adopt the persona of an expert in
field use case primes the model to
response with a deeper more
domainspecific vocabulary and framework.
These are magic words. You might want to
screenshot this. Um this will help you
get the most out of it. And finally we
have uh the divide number 10. The divide
and conquer strategy. So the rule here
is for a complex task act as the con
conductor. Prompt for each part
separately then prompt for the
synthesis. So don't ask for a 10-page
report in a single prompt. Break it down
into logical subtasks that you manage
step by step. So if you listen to this
startup Ideas podcast, you know I love
ideas. You know I have a business
ideabous.com that gives away ideas. Um
and uh you know so you know I like
building businesses and you can see that
it it's easy to you know throw in hey
build a business plan as the one prompt
but this is a way better to do it. Step
one the blueprint create a detailed t
table of contents for a business plan
for a new specialty coffee shop. Step
two section by section write the
executive summary based on our plan. Now
write the market analysis section and
then the A dotted line indicates more
steps. And step three, the synthesis.
Review the complete business plan.
Ensure consistent tone and check for any
contradictions. So this is the project
workflow. You know, doing it section by
section, synthesizing, having the
blueprint, you know, you're dividing and
conquering. You're you're breaking out
to logical subtask. What might even be
helpful here is like literally taking
out a pen of paper and and being like,
"Okay, if I want a business plan, what
are the 10 things I need?" If I want to
create a deck, a fundraising deck, what
are the 10 things I need? If I want to
create a product that's, you know,
software product, what are the 10
different, you know, features I need?
This is going to be helpful for you to
get the most out of it. So, there you
have it. Uh, I've given you the 10 rules
of how you can get how you can prompt
the prompt claude to get literally 10x
more of it. This is the simple tools and
techniques that you can use that have
literally been shared by the people from
Anthropic themselves. We talked about
the tone of collaboration. We talked
about uh which is using friendly, clear
and firm tone. We talked about the
principle of explicitness. We talked
about the defining the boundaries. We
talked about the exploratory draft. We
talked about specifying the details. We
talked about explaining the why. We
talked about how important brevity is,
why you can put a should put a little
scrap scaffolding, how how important it
is to speak the language. And we talked
about the divide and conquer strategy.
So what does that look like when you put
it all together? This is, you know, when
you came into this episode, you might
have prompted or maybe not, but you
might have prompted Claude saying
something like, "Tell me about
stoicism." By the way, I call it Clode,
but for you, I'll I'll call Claude cuz
people get mangry and mad at the an uh
in the comment section about that.
Let's talk about now now that you know
the tools of how to prompt Claude
better, let's let's let's see it at
work. Instead of saying, "Tell me about
stoicism," you're going to say, "Act as
a university professor of philosophy."
Why? Because you've included the persona
in there. You're going to say, "I'm
preparing a 1-hour intro lecture for
students with no prior knowledge."
That's going to explain the why. You're
going to say, first create a lecture
outline with three main sections, the
divide and conquer. The outline should
have a clear introduction and body.
You've now constrained the scope and
conclusion. Please format this as a
nested bulleted list rich output. For
each major point, include a key stoic figure,
figure,
example, senica,
uh, explicitness,
um, and one of their core ideas. Your
tone should be accessible and engaging
tone. So, you've included that all in
there. And then the output is just way
better. So, these are little things to
help you get the most out of uh, these
LLMs. And like why it matters is because
we're all trying to get the most out of
it. Uh we're all trying to create
products that people love. We're all
trying to create content that people
love. We're all trying to do things that
people love. And a lot of the times we
get AI slop. And this is going to help
you not get AI slop. And it's and that's
why I put the time to scour the internet
for you so you can get the most out of
this pro uh product. So so powerful. I
have no affiliation with Anthropic. Um,
but I want I want to see you not just
like, comment, and subscribe on this,
but actually go and build something
great with this stuff. So, um, I'm
rooting for you. Have a creative day and
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