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Re:We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance co... by croemer on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @09:57AM (#47675479)
> you’re reading an AI expansion of someone’s smaller prompt, which contained the original info you’re interested in

This got me thinking: what if LLMs are used to do the opposite? To condense a long prompt into a short article? That takes more work but might make the outcome more enjoyable as it contains more information.

Re:We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance co... by Aerolfos on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @10:10AM (#47675662)
> This got me thinking: what if LLMs are used to do the opposite? To condense a long prompt into a short article? That takes more work but might make the outcome more enjoyable as it contains more information.

You're fighting an uphill battle against the inherent tendency to produce more and longer text. There's also the regression to the mean problem, so you get less information (and more generic) even though the text is shorter.

Basically, it doesn't work