F*ck YES... I made a prompt that stops Claude from making things up while it reverse-engineers a binary
the shift: Sonnet 5.5 maps the binary for cents → Opus 5.5 rebuilds the hard logic → Fable 5.1 only reviews what already passed tests
here’s 3 step guide:
step 1 → drop the CLAUDE.md from the image into your project root (every claim now needs an address or a test behind it)
step 2 → run Sonnet 5.5 and ask for a function map: ADDRESS | NAME | ROLE | EVIDENCE | CONFIDENCE
step 3 → switch to Opus 5.5 with that map and say something like:
“Reconstruct the behavior of [FUNCTION]. Write a spec plus two alternative interpretations and the minimum tests that tell them apart”
the result: you pay ~$0.30 per pass instead of $1.50 on Fable, and you catch the “this loop is CRC32” mistake before it lands in your code
Paste it now. Then read article below to master Claude reverse engineering:
Honestly I couldn't f*ckin believe it actually happened
Stanford data research team just leaked the secret way they process data
your coding pipeline is waiting 2 seconds per row for a model to say "refund" or "bug"
that's what happens when you send a frontier LLM to label a table. it reads, it thinks, it writes a paragraph, and you parse one word out of it.
They stopped doing that. They use Jev.
Jev doesn't write. it picks from the labels you gave it, returns a probability, and moves to the next row.
someone benchmarked it on 500 examples from Stanford's SST-2 dataset against Claude Sonnet 5:
-> accuracy: 95.4% vs 95.6%
-> median latency: 376 ms vs 2,076 ms
-> throughput: 18.2 rows/s vs 3.5 rows/s
-> cost per 1,000 rows: $0.015 vs $0.80
same answer quality. ~5x faster. ~50x cheaper.
and it runs where your data already lives:
-> jev4pg: 41 Jev operators inside PostgreSQL. filter, extract, rank and match rows in SQL, with parallel execution and repeated values sharing one judgment
https://t.co/uCm6kRacEX
-> duckdb-jev: a native DuckDB extension that packs up to 1,000 judgments into one request and streams them straight from a query
https://t.co/W4MrKZktBm
-> jevframe: a .jev accessor for pandas and Polars. ask a question about every row, get a normal column back
https://t.co/qlJxFaQNCl
the database still does the math. Jev only takes the part where something has to be understood.
the catch: it's not magic on every dataset. on 4-topic news it scored 84% vs Claude's 90%, and a fine-tuned BERT beat both. measure it on your own data first.
> let SQL do the joins.
> let Jev do the judgment.
> let the frontier model handle what's actually hard.
bookmark this before your next labeling job eats a weekend to process.