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Anthropic employee quoted explaining why Claude uses XML formatting in prompts rather than markdown.
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When upgrading to new LLM models, practitioners should rewrite their prompts to account for differences in prompt format preferences, position bias, and model-specific biases rather than expecting the same prompts to work equally well across different models.
“Anthropic employee quoted explaining why Claude uses XML formatting in prompts rather than markdown.”