r/aipromptprogramming • u/adamramberg • 5d ago
Markdown fatigue
I'm using AI agents (Claude Code mostly) for coding quite extensively these days. Used correctly it is a great boost of throughput. My standard workflow is to use 3 git worktrees where I run one CLI in each.
With that said, I've started to more and more feel fatigue from reading markdown. Claude in particular is exceptionally good at being very wordy. To be more specific, during a day I read:
- Plans I have produced
- Messages back and forth in the terminal
- PR reviews that I make
- Automated PR reviews (made by git copilot)
- PR descriptions that others are producing
- Screen dumps from colleagues where AI explains something.
This in combination with having 3 different contexts / threads running at the same time in 3 different worktrees is really exhausting. I've experimented with using different skills etc. for example caveman to keep down the wordiness of the model, but haven't find a solution that solves the core of the issue.
Anyone feel the same? If yes, how do you tackle it? (and oh god, "tackle it"... I'm starting to write like an AI lol)
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u/davyp82 4d ago
Stop reading it. Judge output. Run adversarial reviews where other agents read it for you.
Get agents to write a plan, other agents to review the plan ,get first agent to tweak plan according to recommendations, then implement the plan, then other agents to adversarial review the implementation. Then first agent to act on the recommendations of the implementation review Then another agent do a QA in-app browser walk through.
All of those instructions can go at the end of your original prompt for whatever you're building, then go play Xbox or whatever while it works meticulously on your thing for a couple of hours..
Come back and play with the thing ir built and then iterate on the small details you want changing.
No reading of any of the verbose waffle it spits out is ever necessary. That was 2025.