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Comments later in thread say markdown works just as fine and that it’s more important to organize your plan into sections. Also just think about it, why would
by saltsucker 5mo ago
Comments later in thread say markdown works just as fine and that it’s more important to organize your plan into sections.
Also just think about it, why would a model trained on the world’s corpus of text (that isnt formatted in xml) perform better with XML? It would be a better study if that post tested markdown, org, xml, json, etc. 10 times to see if their is a difference
- adastra22 5mo agoA year or so ago XML worked more reliably for long-lived prompt instructions. Now it is cargo culting.
- swingboy 5mo agoAnthropic’s best practices still include the use of XML: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/claude-prompting-best-practices#structure-prompts-with-xml-tags https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt...
- orbital-decay 5mo agoXML consistently performed better than markdown and JSON in all evals I've ever seen on any model, except for a couple very specific ones.