AI's costs are going through the roof - so businesses are telling LLMs to talk like cavemen

Link: Companies Are Making Claude and Codex Talk Like Cavemen to Stop AI’s Soaring Costs, by Joseph Cox at 404 MediaI find this very funny:“Companies are deliberately making their AI tools speak like cavemen in an attempt to stop burning through AI tokens and curb their massive expenditure on AI, 404 Media has found. The tool turns the usually verbose outpost of LLMs like Claude Code, Codex, or Gemini into a much more to the point answer. Think less “you’re right to push back, I was wrong,” and more “Hulk smash.””If only we had other limited-vocabulary lexicons designed to talk to computers efficiently!I think we’re circling a few different possibilities that may show up over the next few years:Literally LLM-specific “programming languages” that humans can use to talk to models more efficiently, of which Caveman is the hilarious first stepA proprietary bytecode-like language for LLMs that makes interactions more efficient but also just happens to be owned by one of the major vendors…