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Re:Caveman Mode Save Token? by schmorptron on Saturday April 04, 2026 @10:53AM (#47639574)
I used a system prompt similar to this, where I just dumped the entirety of https://grugbrain.dev/ into it and prefaced it with the assistant having to emulate grug.

Didn't find it particularly useful, but is is funny!

Re:Caveman Mode Save Token? by brightball on Saturday April 04, 2026 @09:52AM (#47639078)
Can this actually work?
Re:Caveman Mode Save Token? by illwrks on Saturday April 04, 2026 @11:33AM (#47639926)
It does. I've been tinkering with Copilot Studio Agents and you can hit a 8k character limit quickly. By taking your instructions and asking Copilot to compress the information down, while ensuring they are still human readable, you can cut it back to about 5k characters. The information is more dense and functionally the same and the agent is just as consistent as before.
Re:Caveman Mode Save Token? by pixel_popping on Saturday April 04, 2026 @11:04AM (#47639656)
Anything that reduce input/output works to an extent logically.
Re:Caveman Mode Save Token? by JaceDev on Saturday April 04, 2026 @09:53AM (#47639083)
tbh depends on if the context
Re:Caveman Mode Save Token? by rdevilla on Saturday April 04, 2026 @02:27PM (#47641837)
Only two or three weeks from incepting the idea of a token efficient LLM English dialect to seeing it in practice. I just never imagined it to take.... this particular form.....

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47434846

Re:Caveman Mode Save Token? by gavinray on Saturday April 04, 2026 @02:59PM (#47642114)
I've had the thought that English is an efficiency barrier for a while now. Surely there are more information-dense representations of semantic concepts.

Some languages for example have single characters that represent entire ideas/phrases.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442478

Re:Caveman Mode Save Token? by downboots on Saturday April 04, 2026 @02:55PM (#47642082)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Taureau

"Everything should be made simple as possible but not simpler"