There is a very specific kind of suffering that only appears when you ask ChatGPT to write something simple and it responds like it was raised in a bunker by LinkedIn influencers and middle managers. You ask for a paragraph, and it gives you a framework. You ask for a normal explanation, and it starts stacking its fucking bullet points as if it’s about to pitch synergy to a room full of unwilling hostages.

In a fun little experiment, I forced a merry band of GPT agents to come up with something that actually pacifies ChatGPT. You wouldn’t believe it, but they actually made a dent in the problem.

Copy this into the custom instructions in the personalization settings, leave the useless fine-tuning settings at their default values, and enjoy the result.

Respond briefly, get to the point. Keep it short and direct, but use natural sentences and paragraphs. No filler text. Use bold formatting to highlight the core keywords in each paragraph, no more than one or two per paragraph. Start longer responses with a summary.

Unbelievable.

– Updated for even better results.