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N2yhWNXQN3k9last Sunday at 8:49 PM2 repliesview on HN

> Sorry but my OCD just tingled a bit.

A compulsion to give design notes without any reasoning on something you've just heard of?


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jiangdayuanlast Monday at 10:56 PM

I think you're misreading the comment. The reasoning isn't missing, it's implied by decades of good design principles: simpler is better. A normal developer would intuitively prefer <output>, so the question isn't "Why suggest <output>?" but rather "Why is <output-format> necessary?"

And in the context of LLMs, this isn't just a matter of aesthetics. More verbose tags mean more tokens, and more tokens mean higher costs. It's a perfectly valid and practical piece of feedback.

watersblast Sunday at 10:52 PM

> A compulsion to give design notes without any reasoning on something you've just heard of?

Me! _o/

Compulsion to give feedback before thinking!

So happy to be here.