I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter.
Everyone has the time to write the shorter letter now, but very few are.
What I keep seeing instead: one line of thought goes into Claude, five paragraphs come out, and those five paragraphs land in my inbox / a google doc link. The sender saved five minutes, but now I have to spend ten figuring out what they actually meant. Don't be this person.
LLMs want to expand. That's their default and you have to push back on it. Most people don't. Simon Willison called the unedited output slop — "mindlessly generated and thrust upon someone who didn't ask for it." He's right, and the problem isn't just the quality. It's that the sender made the receiver do the editing.
The fix is the compression step. This is where you demonstrate respect and taste to others. If you must, paste it into Claude, and ask it to /simplify Or ask your Claw/Pi to always compress things to their essence before sending.
Pascal had a good excuse, but we don't.