"Explain concisely but don't treat me like an idiot" is the new prompting frontier
granawkins · x · 2026-09-29
Grant Hawkins quips that getting models to "explain things concisely without treating me like an idiot" is the new frontier. His fix: provide 2-4 anchoring metaphors in the prompt and assume he remembers them.
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