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Claude Code Cut Their System Prompt by 80%. Does That Work for Small Models Too?

We A/B tested Ante's half-size system prompt on deepseek-v4-flash across the full terminal-bench 2.1 suite: no measurable performance change, and among the 69 tasks whose outcome stayed the same, the short-prompt run's median input-token count was 32% lower. Anthropic recently re