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Top 5 · 2026-03-03 · source-backed
Distyl AI's IFScale benchmark tested 20 frontier models and found the best one follows only 68% of instructions at 500 lines — meaning one in three rules you write gets silently dropped. Reasoning models (o3, Gemini 2.5 Pro) hold steady through 100-250 instructions before sharp collapse; non-reasoning models decay exponentially from the start. Google Research's "repetition hack" (placing critical rules at the beginning AND end of your config) boosted compliance from 21% to 97%. The takeaway: a tight 50-line CLAUDE.md with 5 critical rules outperforms a 200-line file burying those same rules in noise. Every builder configuring agent tools needs to audit and prune their instruction files today. paddo.dev
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Gemini competes with Claude / Shared entities / Same source / Shared topic
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Claude uses MCP / Shared entities / Shared topic / What happened next
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