Why Claude Loses Your Instruction in a Long Prompt (and the Copy-Paste Template That Fixes It)
Claude looks at every word at once, and each word competes for a limited amount of attention. Put your question last, label every part, and a long prompt stops getting lost. The exact template, how to use it, and the catch
You read a sentence one word at a time. Claude does not: it looks at every word in your message at the same moment, and each word works out how much it matters to all the others. Picture a spotlight on every word. The spotlight has a limited amount of light, so the more you paste in, the dimmer each word gets.
What goes wrong in a long prompt
- You paste a wall of text and add your real instruction in the middle. That one line gets a tiny glow next to hundreds of other lines.
- Claude answers about the loudest part of the text instead of the thing you asked for.
- Two documents pasted back to back blur together, so facts from one get credited to the other.
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