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I think there is some benefit to plugins, it's hard to say how much. I find the superpowers plugin is quite good, mostly in its structured approach to a conversation. Generally the…

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As much as I wish it stacked like that I don't think it would make a difference haha

Caveman doesn't compress the reasoning, only the output. The model still does its full reasoning before generating the response, caveman just affects how the final response is form…

Yeah, makes sense. The appeal is is more to cut output tokens for cost, than downstream reading experience. But the benchmark suggests it doesn't offer as much benefit as "be brief…

Yeah definitely a good point, Claude assisted with editing and tidying up the content with the caveat that it can flatten the voice. I agree the humanity behind writing is disappea…

Yeah fair point. The benchmark is single-run per arm-prompt pair, so the variance finding on safety categories could be noise rather than signal. Findings doc flags this for the sc…

Agree "be brief." being simpler with no setup is most of what people need in practice. To be fair to caveman though, it does more than compression; consistent output structure, int…

Author here. Caveman is a popular Claude Code plugin that compresses Claude's responses via a custom skill with intensity modes. I wanted to know whether it actually beats the simp…