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by johntash 54 days ago
How do you keep llms from writing _too much_? I've built a few similar tools and systems, and they're all way too easy for the llm to just keep documenting things to the point the whole system is a mess and becomes less useful the bigger it gets.

One example experiment I had was seeing if I could get a llm to build its own knowledge wiki where I would paste a few links and have it go do some research on whatever the subject was, then distill what it finds into specific wiki pages with links to other pages or the source refs. It looked good until you read the actual data.

This was a few years ago though, so maybe it's worth trying again with something like opus 4.7.