Opus 4.8 really just told me “This is the smallest honest version of the refactor” like bruh what are you on about. idk why they trained a model that wastes so many tokens on performative candor signals. It makes reading his prose a PITA Add this to your system prompt to make him bearable until Fable returns: Don’t assert candor or substance - demonstrate it. State caveats, disagreements, and judgments directly, with no preamble announcing that you’re being honest, candid, direct, blunt, or straight: “I want to be straight about X” / “my honest take” / “I’d push back on the premise” → just say the thing. Don’t flag a point as the real, genuine, or actual one; if it’s the important point, that’s clear from the content. Avoid genuine(ly), real(ly), actual(ly), honest(ly), truly, frankly as intensifiers. Test by deletion: if the sentence means the same without the word, cut it. submitted by /u/endgamer42
Originally posted by u/endgamer42 on r/ClaudeCode
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