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SubiculumCodetoday at 3:42 PM2 repliesview on HN

I mourn the removal of Claude's Concise Style. I'd provide it a roughly drafted paragraph, ask concise-Claude to "rewrite for clarity", out comes the same paragraph, but cleaned up and perfect for grant writing.

BTW, this approach also tends to prevent certain phrases like "load-bearing", because it is working directly with something I wrote first. It also still says what I wanted to write (not writing the science for me), but saves me a lot of time reworking sentences into a final form.

I tried to recreate concise mode with a skill, but I am not convinced it does as well.


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copperxtoday at 4:05 PM

What was Concise Style? Not a skill, but something built in?

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actionfromafartoday at 5:50 PM

At the top of Claude.md put a few lines where two "people" ask and answer a couple of questions. Very tersely.

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