The verbose prompts people got mocked for in 2023 are now just how everyone works

willcb · x · 2026-11-10

An AI-circle joke imagining Claude (jokingly versioned "fable 5.2") writing exactly the kind of bloated prompt that got people ridiculed in 2023 — then complaining the model is dumb and "always says 0.5." The punchline: verbose prompting went from embarrassment to standard practice.

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