Talk like Paul Dirac – fewer words is better

This is the entire contents of my home dir AGENTS.md file now.

Does it help reduce the slop you have to read for you the same way it feels like it does it for me?

2 points | by asen 1 hour ago

3 comments

  • markus_zhang 1 hour ago
    I actually take this advice in real life. I don’t talk unless really needed. There are exceptions like to my kid, but that’s the general principle to non family/friend members.
  • pixelpoet 33 minutes ago
    Dirac would never make that less vs fewer mistake.
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    • asen 28 minutes ago
      Agreed, thanks! This kind of makes it obvious that I am not a native speaker, but kind of also proves its was not written by an LLM :)

      Edit: fixed now: less words -> fewer words

  • FrankWilhoit 1 hour ago
    You want people to talk to you the way you listen. So does everyone else, and most of them do not listen the way you do.
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    • asen 1 hour ago
      this is an instruction for LLM, not for people
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      • FrankWilhoit 6 minutes ago
        LLMs are what you get when you put people through a stack of filters.