alt Hacker NewsYeah I don't know that any of the benchmarks index on "understandability". I'm amazed at how Claude can produce a page of text describing what it did and it can take me a full five minutes to decipher it, often just to find it's something I could have expressed in a simple sentence.
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gwerbin • today at 4:14 PM
They want you to use Sonnet to explain what Opus is trying to say. They're not optimizing for token efficiency.
conception • today at 12:38 PM
Have you tried asking it for a lay explanation of what it did? That’s usually all it takes for me. Sends garbage -> request -> sends something readable
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jasonlotito • today at 1:00 PM
Adjust the output in settings. Or customize it to what you want.
I just spent a day writing very thorough system prompts for communicating in different contexts.
Everything is super succinct. Opus 5 lands, it almost completely disregards the intent.
I suppose watermarking requires a certain text mass.