Claude.

Long-context writing, careful reasoning, structured XML prompts, strong instruction following.

Anthropic · ~200,000 context

Strengths

Long-context writing, careful reasoning, structured XML prompts, strong instruction following.

Watch for

Can be conservative on creative leaps; quality and limits vary by Opus/Sonnet/Haiku tier.

Prompting

Prefer XML-delimited role, objective, constraints, and output_format. Multishot examples help.

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