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There's a difference of types of messaging.

Unless you and me are using entirely different classes of LLMs, surely you'll admit that chatting with LLM is nothing like IRC or old-school IM-ing a friend, and more like exchanging Messenger/WhatsApp messages with stranger.

For me, something there crosses a boundary where I switch from "irc msg" to "Write a proper message, please." style.

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A decent percentage of the message I send are something along the lines of 'sg go cook'

I use my own agent harness, and write my own system prompts to ensure that the bots are terse and don’t engage in flattery or unnecessary prose, which is a pet peeve of mine.

It’s a much better use of that context window space than for advertising about other models (looking at you Anthropic).

But that aside, I hear you It’s just another type of code switching. I will also adjust my writing style based others and on the context

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