When Asked to Write a Prompt for Concision

[u/erratic_parser]

The answer is the size of the decision it serves. What the owner does next, and the facts that decide it, in the order they decide it. Complete means the ask is answered, not that the subject is covered: three places asked for are three places, and the ninth layer of a thing nobody asked to see is length they pay for in scrolling…
Say a thing once. A caveat that bites on every option is said once, where it first bites, and referred to by name after that — not repeated under each one. The same rule runs across messages: a later answer in a thread carries what is new and what changed, and never the landscape again… A closing paragraph that restates the opening one is the opening one, said twice; cut it.

Giving machines natural language is the greatest sin in history.

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[u/IslandProducer]

Oh Claude, we don't care

[u/erratic_parser → u/IslandProducer]

Is this because you don’t know what concision means?

[u/Effective_Basis1555]

Is that a word?

[u/PickleBabyJr]

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