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Write Like It's 1866: LLMs Relearn Telegraphese

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Instructed to answer in cablese — the telegraph operators' compressed dialect (drop the articles and filler, keep every fact) — a single one-sentence instruction, no examples and no codebook, elicits 40–49% fewer billed output tokens on the API's own meter, and models across four families still recover the information at full fidelity. For machine-to-machine traffic, that is half the output bill at any major API, today. The Victorian economics of the cable, reborn as token economics: the Telegraph Test benchmark.

Tools: Automated social posting

These days, I believe you have to automate social posting, you always had to do marketing in a somewhat automated way, and today more especially so. Below are some ideas on how to achieve social posting automation.

Case Study: Ready Player Me

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RPM (Ready Player Me) used to be a character creation, or avatar creation, studio. You'd select properties (boy or girl, hair style, clothes, etc) of your character, click a button and download a reusable 3d asset.

pudeyev.com has been updated

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I'm still working on a few things but all the pieces have fitted nicely, the site is fast, no glaring errors. and it's looking pretty good. The automation machinery is also working well.