>The “answer before reasoning” is a good evidence for it. It misses the most fundamental concept of tranaformers: the are autoregressive.
I don't think it's fair to assume the author doesn't understand how transformers work. Their intention with this instruction appears to aggressively reduce output token cost.
i.e. I read this instruction as a hack to emulate the Qwen model series's /nothink token instruction
If you're goal is quality outputs, then it is likely too extreme, but there are otherwise useful instructions in this repo to (quantifiably) reduce verbosity.