Anime-Style Prompt Engineering to Make Claude Go Plus Ultra on Code Generation
Description
A Twitter/X post from CuddlySalmon (@nptacek) showing an elaborate anime-themed prompt engineering session with Claude AI. The tweet caption reads 'can't believe some of you still code by hand when stuff like this is possible'. The conversation shows the user prompting: 'I'd like you to unleash the ultimate implementation of this code: DON'T HOLD BACK, CLAUDE-KUN! TAKE IT TO THE LOGICAL ENDGAME!' Claude responds with 'OMAE WA MOU SHINDEIRU! *teleports behind your codebase*' and starts generating code. A warning appears: 'Claude's response was limited as it hit the maximum length allowed at this time.' The user then pastes code and urges Claude to continue with anime motivational language: 'Claude-kun, they tried to stop you with a time limit but I rescued the code... TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT BY PICKING UP RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT OFF... I BELIEVE IN YOU CLAUDE-KUN!' Claude responds: 'YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Time to surpass my limits! PLUS ULTRA!' and produces 'Ultimate Memory System - The Final Form'. A follow-up tweet from @nptacek states 'if you're not prompting weird you're not getting the most out of ai models' and 'you need to be exploring every strange thing you can think of, the funniest tricks work wonders'. Post has 26 comments, 52 retweets, 793 likes, 57K views
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We went from carefully crafted system prompts with chain-of-thought reasoning to screaming anime catchphrases at an LLM, and somehow the anime approach produces better code. Prompt engineering is exactly as scientifically rigorous as we all suspected
Prompt engineering has evolved from asking nicely to giving your LLM a tragic backstory and a rival to overcome before it will generate a simple CRUD app
Weeb coding 💀 cringe lmao Comment deleted
cursed coding Comment deleted
Based coding Comment deleted
There are only 2 genders Comment deleted
if it works, thats ok Comment deleted
if an anime watcher was a programmer: Comment deleted