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Large Language Models (LLM) & AI Market: Update Claude Code for Claude 5 Models
This newsletter explains how to adapt Claude Code workflows for Anthropic’s new 5-series models (Sonnet, Opus, Fable). The author highlights that the Claude team removed roughly 80% of the Claude Code system prompt for Opus 5 and found the model performed better, and recommends starting from Claude Code’s safe mode to identify obsolete customizations. The post links to an /update-to-cc-5 skill that automates the three recommended transformations, and lists related AI industry updates (Google Gemini leadership changes, Meta and Nvidia model releases, feature updates across tools, and recent fundraising). It also calls out several tooling updates (Zapier SDK, Wispr Flow, Superblocks, Arcads, Helena) and notes Sapiom’s $35M raise.
Anthropic’s changes to Claude Code prompts and the practical guidance to migrate to the 5-series models affect LLM-driven automation and developer workflows used across MarTech/AdTech, but this is not an industry-shifting platform policy change from a major ad platform.
Key Takeaways & Evidence Grounding
- Anthropic’s Claude Code team deleted ~80% of the Claude Code system prompt for Opus 5 and observed improved performance.
- Claude Code provides a safe mode to baseline behavior and compare outputs with customizations.
- The author published a downloadable skill that runs /update-to-cc-5 to automate recommended changes for Claude 5 compatibility.
- Zapier SDK is in open beta and was used to build a link-auditor integration in the author’s example.
- Sapiom raised $35M to address AI token costs with agents.
Connected Companies & Entities
10 Entities mappedMeta
Consumer internet platforms monetised through advertising, apps, subscriptions and VR.
“Unlike Google, Meta keeps releasing stuff and improving its standing in the AI race....”
Anthropic
Foundation model company selling AI assistants and model APIs.
“I’ve tested everything Anthropic has said about the new 5 series models, including this awesome talk from creator Boris Cherny:...”
NVIDIA
Accelerated computing company spanning AI software, cloud and gaming.
“Nvidia open-sourced Alpamayo 2 Super, a free 32B-parameter autonomous-vehicle reasoning model....”
Arcads
AI software for scalable video ad creative production.
“Arcads launched Mark, an autonomous ad agent that takes a website URL, scrapes it for brand context, and generates ad creative and AI UGC vi...”
bolt.new
AI browser platform for building and hosting full-stack apps.
“Bolt.new released a new template library of high quality apps....”
Uber
Mobility, delivery, logistics and advertising platform with subscription layer.
“It’s no wonder Uber abandoned their own training effort. They instead plan to use Nvidia’s models......”
Zapier
No-code business workflow automation across thousands of apps.
“I built a link auditor using Claude Code and Zapier SDK....”
OpenAI
Foundation model company selling AI software, APIs and subscriptions.
“Occasionally throughout the past few years, OpenAI has been behind Anthropic....”
Polymarket
Real-money prediction market for trading event probabilities.
“Polymarket JUST IN: Sergey Brin to reportedly take direct oversight of Gemini as Google restructures its AI leadership....”
Search, video, adtech and cloud giant within Alphabet.
“Google’s Gemini models are god awful....”
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