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this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2026
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LLMs use the wrong language cues. They spend a lot of words emphasizing an utterly mundane point, and it's difficult to read because it's constantly winding you up to reveal some arcane knowledge just to drop knowledge bombs like, make sure you use good names for variables and always handle your exceptions. I've seen them spend two paragraphs when a short sentence would do.
I think they are improving on this too, some latest models give pretty terse answer for example