Caveman Mode Save Token?
brightball
15 points
7 comments
April 04, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (3 comments)
brightball
Can this actually work?
schmorptron
I used a system prompt similar to this, where I just dumped the entirety of https://grugbrain.dev/ into it and prefaced it with the assistant having to emulate grug. Didn't find it particularly useful, but is is funny!
rdevilla
Only two or three weeks from incepting the idea of a token efficient LLM English dialect to seeing it in practice. I just never imagined it to take.... this particular form..... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47434846