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The speaker says that knowledge previously included in Claude Code's system prompt, such as tool-use instructions, is now expected to be encoded more in the model weights.

Mihail Eric · [One Million AI Engineer Special] How Stanford Teaches AI-Native Engineering — Mihail Eric, Monaco · 8 Nov 2026

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“It's actually expected to be more kinda captured in the models, like the model weights itself. Um, so they've kind of baked in a lot of those learnings more at the model level. And that just raises interesting questions around, you know, the model versus the harness, right?”
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