For a start they could make the answers less talkative?

I switched back to ChatGPT out of necessity, because Claude stopped working after two queries, where it gave overly elaborate answers (about a simple web app config).

But Claude isn't alone. It seems a recent (subjective) trend that Claude and ChatGPT give very lengthy answers, with a lot of repetition from the original query on the free plans.

I got used to add "answer briefly", to keep the noise in check.

Yes lately i've also noticed the same pattern that Model try to provide over explaination to even simple stuff & that points to its system prompt or something internal instructions to waste tokens to hit limits

And just as with a real human rambler, the longer they rambler, the more likely they are to start making stuff up and asserting false truths