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sensible: "makes the model speak less like a polite chatbot & more like a terse tool … Same substance, fewer words. In my evals, Caveman cut output tokens by roughly 65–75% versus default verbose output, & still beat a normal ‘be concise’ instruction" https://t.co/HCDF…

Companies Are Making Claude and Codex Talk Like Cavemen to Stop AI’s Soaring Costs 404media.co
AI Weekly's analysis
  • A plugin called caveman, written by Julius Brussee in early April, strips verbose model output and cut tokens by roughly 65 to 75 percent in his tests.
  • Shayne Sweeney, OpenAI's director of engineering, contributed code to caveman to support Codex, and developers at Nvidia and GitHub are reportedly using it.
  • GitHub shifted to per-token billing in April, Uber blew through its entire AI budget in four months, and Legrand's internal memo points staff at caveman.
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A solution to cultural drift: human level AI which people neither love nor hate too much. https://t.co/C0vnNjiIzB

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