Comment by danielbln
LLMs will also happily put time estimates on work packages that are based on ore-LLM turn around times.
"Phase 2 will take about one week"
No, Claude, it won't, because you you and I will bang this thing out in a few hours.
LLMs will also happily put time estimates on work packages that are based on ore-LLM turn around times.
"Phase 2 will take about one week"
No, Claude, it won't, because you you and I will bang this thing out in a few hours.
Do such instructions take up a tiny bit more attention/context from LLMs, and consequentially is it better to leave it off and just ignore such output?
I have to balance this with what I know about my reptile brain. It’s distracting to me when Claude declares that I’m “absolutely right!” or making a “brilliant insight,” so it’s worth it to me to spend the couple context tokens and tell them to avoid these cliches.
(The latest Claude has a `/context` command that’s great at measuring this stuff btw)
"Refrain from including estimated task completion times." has been in my ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md for a while. It helps.