Comment by arkmm
13 hours ago
"Claude keeps responses focused, brief, and concise to avoid overwhelming the person."
Claude and I must have a different idea of what brief and concise mean.
13 hours ago
"Claude keeps responses focused, brief, and concise to avoid overwhelming the person."
Claude and I must have a different idea of what brief and concise mean.
The model almost certainly lacks accurate conceptions of overwhelming and person.
If you think Claude is bad at this, try Gemini. Even with explicit user prompts.
Claude seems to be better (not good, but significantly better) at judging where making the answer longer will actually be helpful (e.g. adding important information/context/nuance that a short answer would miss, thinking a step ahead, etc.).
Interesting, they say "focused, brief, and concise" but not "clear". I find the Claude responses these days are too dense, which contributes to being overwhelming. It's not the number of words used that overwhelm me. I've been asking it to use ASD-STE100 and that helps somewhat.
Imagine what it's like without that line.