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		sramam 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with too... do tools like cursor get a special pass? Or do they do some magic? I'm always amazed at how well they deal with diffs. especially when the response jank clearly points to a "... + a change", and cursor maps it back to a proper diff.

ec109685 4 months ago | [–]

Cursor for instance does lots of tricks to make applying janky diffs efficient, e.g. https://blog.getbind.co/2024/10/02/how-cursor-ai-implemented...

mcintyre1994 4 months ago | [–]

I think Cursor would need to have their own system prompt for most of this, I don't think the API includes much of this.

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