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I don’t like ELI5 as default for “make this easy to understand,” a great thing about LLMs is the ability to work as universal translators ac…
I don’t like ELI5 as default for “make this easy to understand,” a great thing about LLMs is the ability to work as universal translators across topics Asking for generic dumbed-down explanations is w
I don’t like ELI5 as default for “make this easy to understand,” a great thing about LLMs is the ability to work as universal translators across topics Asking for generic dumbed-down explanations is worse than asking for personalized ones: “explain to me drawing on what I know” a skill people at Anthropic have been using a lot recently: ELI5 /eli5 "explain like I'm someone who knows nothing about this topic, using a HTML artifact with big pictures and few words"
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Source: Ethan Mollick (X) | 2026-08-22