Intent Engineering: Stop Writing Steps, Start Writing Done
Anthropic's own docs now say a hand-written step-by-step plan often reasons worse than the words 'think thoroughly' — and that on Claude Opus 5 you should delete the 'verify your answer' line you added last year. Here's the shift, a real before/after, and a four-slot intent template.
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Intent Engineering: Stop Writing Steps, Start Writing Done — Anthropic's own docs now say a hand-written step-by-step plan often reasons worse than the words 'think thoroughly' — and that on Claude Opus 5 you should delete the 'verify your answer' line you added last year. Here's the shift, a real before/after, and a four-slot intent template.
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