max-t-dev

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by max-t-dev 5mo ago
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 they do feel pretty overhyped.
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by max-t-dev 5mo ago
Hahaha
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by max-t-dev 5mo ago
As much as I wish it stacked like that I don't think it would make a difference haha
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by max-t-dev 5mo ago
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 formatted.
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by max-t-dev 5mo ago
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.".
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by max-t-dev 5mo ago
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 disappearing and perhaps that's something I should consider in
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by max-t-dev 5mo ago
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 score deltas (anything under 0.02 between arms is in the judge
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by max-t-dev 5mo ago
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, intensity modes via slash commands, hook-based rules
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I benchmarked Claude Code's caveman plugin against "be brief."(maxtaylor.me)
89 points by max-t-dev 5mo ago|67 comments
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by max-t-dev 5mo ago
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 simplest possible alternative, prepending "be brief.&q