LLM Complexity Spike: Devs Now Forced to Prompt "Explain Simply"
_Stocko_ · x · 2026-08-03
A developer shared a growing experience with modern LLMs: model outputs are becoming so dense with context that even the creator of the project struggles to process the responses.
A year ago, the focus was on prompting for maximum depth and PhD-level answers. Today, the developer increasingly finds their next prompt being simply, "Explain that more simply," to manage cognitive load.
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