Entries for April 3, 2026
"Plainer language" is perhaps my most used prompt I have to use it because GPT models' training tends to make their first response an overly verbose wall of text Are you using it too? Whenever you don't understand something that your agent is saying, you can spam it "plainer language, shorter" 2, 3, 5, 10 times, until it outputs something that you can understand This is counterintuitive because you can't do it with humans this extremely. Asking too many questions and favors is impolite, with colleagues and strangers But with AI, you can stop being polite and treat it like how a spoiled aristocrat kid might treat their private tutor, "explain this", "explain that" Below is an example. On the left, initial response. On the right, the final human-readable explanation I got out of the agent. This took 9 steps to distill because the issue wasn't so straightforward I'm curious how this will turn out. This is obviously very bad UX, so models in the near future might do the simplification automatically and save you the troubleImage hiddenImage hidden-
This has happened to some companies I worked at before It is a scary thing once you stop innovating and start imitating, whatever the reason might be But it was never at the scale of Cursor, as leveraged and invested as they are They were leading the space for a while. That is not the case anymore. I hope that they survive this