I've mention before that we should have a look at Telegraph/telegram speak. There was a HUGE industry in word efficiency at that time. There are hundreds of books.
replyI even think an LLM trained to communicate using telegram style might even be faster and way cheaper.
Reminds me of the terminus agent/harness on the terminal-bench coding benchmark - they just send send keystrokes to a tmux session. They score pretty well.
reply> I've mention before that we should have a look at Telegraph/telegram speak.
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replyWhy use many word when few do trick?
replyIt’s the new cloud cost vector, where cutting 2K from context on a busy service saves $xxxxx.
replyTerse.
Like "Token Usage Consulting" companies popping up now? :-D
replyNo org doing real work cares about token use costs.
replyThis mainly just affects hobbyists.
Token use cost can easily get as large as dev salaries. Even real businesses care about that.
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