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📣 rrr_oh_man

How to Stop Chatsplaining?


I'm so tired of ChatGPT adding introductions, prefaces, summaries, warnings, and all other kinds of crap around what are essentially code debugging 4 liners (my main use case).

This thing seems to ignore all flavours of custom instructions and previous pleas to be concise and straightforward.

It reminds me of this one overly chatty coworker in 2018 who insisted on telling everyone and everytime, in sequence and in detail, how their unremarkable weekend went during a grueling 60 hour client site work week.

Seriously, how do you deal with this? How to turn this off? I just want code. *weep*


  👤 planetrenox Accepted Answer ✓
A minimalist writing style refers to writing with a small, specific focus, usually devoid of flowery, excessively descriptive language and backstory. Literary minimalism prioritizes brevity, allowing the reader to make up for a lack of verbiage with their imagination. Minimalist writers tend to write succinctly, without using adjectives and adverbs excessively. Less is more.

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