Universal Claude.md – cut Claude output tokens

Post by computerex » Tue, Mar 31, 2026, 6:26 AM UTC

johnfn wrote: post #93

xianshou wrote: post #18

From the file: "Answer is always line 1. Reasoning comes after, never before." LLMs are autoregressive (filling in the completion of what came before), so you'd better have thinking mode on or the "reasoning" is pure confirmation bias seeded by the answer that gets locked in via the first output tokens.

Is this true? Non-reasoning LLMs are autoregressive. Reasoning LLMs can emit thousands of reasoning tokens before "line 1" where they write the answer.

Post by ProofHouse » Tue, Mar 31, 2026, 6:41 AM UTC

dataviz1000 wrote: post #26

sillysaurusx wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wrote a skill called /handoff. Whenever a session is nearing a compaction limit or has served its usefulness, it generates and commits a markdown file explaining everything it did or talked about. It’s called /handoff because you do it before a compaction. (“Isn’t that what compaction is for?” Yes, but those go away. This is like a permanent record of compacted sessions.) I don’t know if it helps maintain long term…

Did you call it '/handoff' or did Claude name it that? The reason I'm asking is because I noticed a pattern with Claude subtly influencing me. For example, the first time I heard the the word 'gate' was from Claude and 1 week later I hear it everywhere including on Hacker News. I didn't use the word 'handoff' but Claude creates handoff files also [0]. I was thinking about this all day. Because Claude didn't just use…

Post by rimliu » Tue, Mar 31, 2026, 6:59 AM UTC

johnfn wrote: post #93

xianshou wrote: post #18

From the file: "Answer is always line 1. Reasoning comes after, never before." LLMs are autoregressive (filling in the completion of what came before), so you'd better have thinking mode on or the "reasoning" is pure confirmation bias seeded by the answer that gets locked in via the first output tokens.

Is this true? Non-reasoning LLMs are autoregressive. Reasoning LLMs can emit thousands of reasoning tokens before "line 1" where they write the answer.

Post by dataviz1000 » Tue, Mar 31, 2026, 7:15 AM UTC

btown wrote: post #4

It seems the benchmarks here are heavily biased towards single-shot explanatory tasks, not agentic loops where code is generated: https://github.com/drona23/claude-token-efficient/blob/main/... And I think this raises a really important question. When you're deep into a project that's iterating on a live codebase, does Claude's default verbosity, where it's allowed to expound on why it's doing what it's doing when it…

Post by Razengan » Tue, Mar 31, 2026, 7:43 AM UTC