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> frequently contains all too plausible nonsense, and is increasingly jargon dense.

Does anyone know how to deal with the jargon part? It is getting hard to use claude and even worse when someone sends you the direct output from claude.

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As with most things LLM, you can generally get what you want by asking for it (maybe not efficiently, but so it goes). "Once you have a answer, please summarize, and ask an agent to convert it to plain English" often helps.

I'm adding "ELI8" (explain like I'm 8 years old) to the end of my prompts a lot. It helps.

Why ELI8 and not the ubiquitous ELI5?

Funny. Because I was not aware of that acronym and only saw "ELI8" when I prompted "explain like I'm eight years old".

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