That's why you have to give claude and others directives/.md at the beginning so it doesn't go off the deep end with suggestions.

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epistasis 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah, I've tried, and I'm sure somebody is going to say "skill issue" but it's not so easy to get the model to do that. Maybe it should be a SKILLS.md issue.

Edit: also, how can I stop the LLM from all this fake glazing, as if every question I have is some sort of unique genius insight, it's so damn annoying. I just got the third straight round of this while merely trying to get summarization of a PDF:

> Good question — it gets right at a real tension in the paper. Let me check the current state of actual SV-imputation efforts, since this has moved since 2020.

	▲	bornfreddy 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I didn't try telling to be concise and stop pampering me yet (but good idea, tomorrow), however I found that instead of me writing agent instructions, it works much better if I tell claude to write instructions for itself. I do check if they make sense of course, but its wording works much better than mine.