"Be concise" is the same underspecified trap as "act as a senior developer," just smaller
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Kept telling a model to "be concise" and kept getting output that was short but still somehow missed the point, cutting detail that mattered while keeping filler that didn't. Took three rounds of adjusting the instruction to actually get what I wanted. First attempt: "be concise." Model's idea of c…
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- 2026-09-02 12:22 · r/OpenAI
"Be concise" is the same underspecified trap as "act as a senior developer," just smaller