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I BENCHMARKED CAVEMAN AGAINST TWO WORDS

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Summary from the TLDR Dev newsletter

Benchmarks comparing the "Caveman" Claude code compression plugin against the simple prompt "be brief" found that the two-word prompt matched Caveman in both token reduction and output quality across most tested categories. While "be brief" is recommended for simple token reduction, Caveman is ideal for those needing predictable and structured output formats.