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vadansky 47 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude

It's a waste of tokens to do it post-hoc instead of fixing it upstream, but when I see a wall of text I just prompt "TLDR;"

jimmaswell 47 days ago [–]

Depends what you mean by "upstream". It would probably be inefficient to force the model to use more human-readable wording in its internal thinking traces, while translating a block of text at the end is a pretty trivial task for an LLM.

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