You can get the same result as the grandparent comment with the "weaker" Anthropic models. Probably 80% of my AI usage these days is with smaller models like Haiku and Sonnet. I prompt them like I'm posting a question to StackOverflow, without much project context.
Claude is made for dumdums. The product is to automate as much as possible and remove the burden of thinking. ChatGPT is much more hands on, but it gives you more power and flexibility and actually listens to your demands.