Opus 4.7 removes manual dials; prompts become the new hyperparameters.

Opus 4.7 removes manual dials; prompts become the new hyperparameters. | we're seeing in some sense an end of an end of an era where the earlier controls that we used to have... no longer possible. Now you're just told in the documentation, you want determinism, forget about it... Now everything the new guidance is use prompts. Use prompts for everything. Prompts are the new dials and the new hyperparameters.

we're seeing in some sense an end of an end of an era where the earlier controls that we used to have... no longer possible. Now you're just told in the documentation, you want determinism, forget about it... Now everything the new guidance is use prompts. Use prompts for everything. Prompts are the new dials and the new hyperparameters.

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