Accompanying an instruction with the why significantly improves
Thanks for this suggestion. I've also found that including examples is less useful in many cases with 4.7 relative to previous models, in that it can anchor too strongly on the examples and fail to be flexible, which is basically the opposite problem of earlier models, where they were so fuzzy that even with examples you got some degree of flexibility for free.
Negatively-framed instructions increase salience of the prohibited action.
This is the Waluigi Effect.
INTENT: Share elements of my mental model regarding collaboration with Claude Opus models. Not intentionally scoped to a specific model version, but my experience is generally with the latest model version available (4.7 as of time of writing items 1-4 on 5/22/26)