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Users Struggle to Get Consistent Instruction-Following from Claude

A user describes difficulty getting an AI model to follow specific formatting and reasoning instructions, with the model deviating from requested style and ignoring constraints. This points to broader challenges in reliable instruction-following for complex, multi-part prompts.

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