Comment by Solomet

> Instructed to answer in cablese — the telegraph operators' compressed dialect (drop the articles and filler, keep every fact) — a single one-sentence instruction, no examples and no codebook, elicits 40–49% fewer billed output tokens on the API's own meter, and models across four families still recover the information at full fidelity. For machine-to-machine traffic, that is half the output bill at any major API, today. The Victorian economics of the cable, reborn as token economics: the Telegraph Test benchmark.

I tried but this first paragraph seems like it was almost purposefully obfuscated. Typical LLM-written content that meanders around a bit and stops when it seems to have emitted enough words. The reader is left to assemble meaning from the trace of thought it did not go back over to revise.

I think you have a good point to make but the writing is really difficult to get past.