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by cpt_sobel 88 days ago
I get what you're saying, but I'm not talking about swearing at the model or anything, I'm only implying that investing energy in formulating a syntactically nice sentence doesn't or shouldn't bring any value, and that I don't care if I hurt the model's feelings (it doesn't have any).

Note, why would the author write "Email will arrive from a webhook, yes." instead of "yy webhook"? In the second case I wouldn't be impolite either, I might reply like this in an IM to a colleague I work with every day.
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well_ackshually 88 days ago
>investing energy

For the vast majority of people, using capital letters and saying please doesn't consume energy, it just is. There's a thousand things in your day that consume more energy like a shitty 9AM daily.

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chriswarbo 88 days ago
> investing energy in formulating a syntactically nice sentence

This seem to be completely subjective; I write syntactically/grammatically "nice" sentences to LLMs, because that's how I write. I would have to "invest energy" to force myself to write in that supposedly "simpler" style.

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jstanley 88 days ago
"yy webhook" is much less clear. It could just as easily mean "why webhook" as "yes webhook".

It's also actually more trouble to formulate abbreviated sentences than normal ones, at least for literate adults who can type reasonably well.

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cpt_sobel 88 days ago
I confidently assume that the model has been trained on an ungodly amount of abbreviated text and "yy" has always meant "yeah".

> literate adults who can type reasonably well

For me the difference is around 20 wpm in writing speed if just write out my stream of thoughts vs when I care about typos and capitalizing words - I find real value in this.

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stavros 88 days ago
It's just easier for me to write that way. In that specific sentence, I also kind of reaffirmed what was going on in my head and typed my thought process out loud. There's no deeper logic than that, it's just what's easier for me.
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layer8 88 days ago
> investing energy in formulating a syntactically nice sentence

It would cost me energy to deliberately not write with proper grammar and orthography. I would never want to write sloppily to a colleague either.

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