A One-Line Prompt Trick to Cut Through Claude's Rambling Output
EnvironmentalRice348 · reddit · 2026-09-20
A Reddit user shares a simple prompt trick: appending "tldr as though you are speaking to a technical project manager" makes Claude skip its usual verbose preamble and deliver concise, to-the-point summaries. The author, a technical PM themselves, jokes about the irony of being dumbed down for their own profession.
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