> Messages are expected to be written across several coherent English sentences, neatly organized into paragraphs, finally with some sort of signature. In the p

> Messages are expected to be written across several coherent English sentences, neatly organized into paragraphs, finally with some sort of signature. In the programming world we refer to this as boilerplate. "This HTTP call has no message body and therefore no content, and can thus be ignored" he said confidently, not noticing the status code. The verbiage is where you find out useful information, like whether the speaker is on your side and whether they understand the problem the same way as you and whether they're dumb. It's not as if the reason we didn't adopt bullet-points-only ten years ago is that it required better AI. More generally, I submit that when faced with a long email thread, skim reading is superior to LLM summaries in all cases (except maybe the one where the reader is too inexperienced to do it well). It's faster, captures more detail, and (probably most important) avoids the problem of the people on the thread coming away with subtly different understandings of the conversation.