I may have to apologize, quite a bit, for what might only be a small part or perhaps an outsized influence if weighted highly (I can’t be sure, could have been mv dev/null’ed)… well, it’s this— my own style of not-kept-in-check by the need to be comprehensible (legible in Claude-speak) to others is, I’m afraid, to rather allow prose to sprawl and go everywhere and even sometimes nowhere at all until it just drifts off and sort of wakes itself up snoring in the weeds of an unintended topic.

Ruthless pruning is unneeded with an LLM and it can take me twice the time to say half as many words.

And, early in the ‘GPT era, I hadn’t unchecked the “allow your chats to be used in future training etc” box, and definitionally they are longer and denser than others’ prompts in such raw scrapings of training materials…

Sorry.