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>GPT‑5.1 Thinking’s responses are also clearer, with less jargon and fewer undefined terms

Oh yeah that's what I want when asking a technical question! Please talk down to me, call a spade an earth-pokey-stick and don't ever use a phrase or concept I don't know because when I come face-to-face with something I don't know yet I feel deep insecurity and dread instead of seeing an opportunity to learn!

But I assume their data shows that this is exactly how their core target audience works.

Better instruction-following sounds lovely though.



In defense of OpenAI in this particular situation, GPT 5 can be incredibly jargon-y at times, making it much worse of a learning tool than other LLMs. Here's some response snippets from me asking a question about dual-stack networking:

> Get an IPv6 allocation from your RIR and IPv6 transit/peering. Run IPv6 BGP with upstreams and in your core (OSPFv3/IS-IS + iBGP).

> Enable IPv6 on your access/BNG/BRAS/CMTS and aggregation. Support PPPoE or IPoE for IPv6 just like IPv4.

> Security and ops: permit ICMPv6, implement BCP38/uRPF, RA/DHCPv6 Guard on access ports, filter IPv6 bogons, update monitoring/flow logs for IPv6.

Speaking like a networking pro makes sense if you're talking to another pro, but it wasn't offering any explanations with this stuff, just diving deep right away. Other LLMs conveyed the same info in a more digestible way.


Actually it just demonstrates why ipv6 adoption has failed :)

No one is going to do that for fun and there is no easy path for home networks.


Asking it to clarify costs nothing and you end up getting up to speed with the language of the domain; everyone wins.


> Asking it to clarify costs nothing

It costs the most important thing I got


Deepening your knowledge isn't worth two minutes to you?

Different strokes, that's fair, but geez.


As does avoiding jargon at the cost of clarity, or defining every term for people who already know it.


Probably not as much as people who heavily lean on their tribes lingo want to believe, but yes. I think we would prefer an AI that is fantastic as understanding what we know. If it's not, it costs time either way — which is not great, either way.


Why are you even doing this if you don’t want to learn? And if you can’t be bothered to ask questions, are you even serious about learning?


I always wonder how useful such explanations could be. If you don’t know (or can’t guess) what ICMPv6 is (and how much would knowing it stands for “Internet Control Message Protocol version 6” help?), perhaps you asked the wrong question or, yes, you’re dangerously out of your depth and shouldn’t be trying to implement a networking stack without doing some more research.


I have added a ”language-and-tone.md” in my coding agents docs to make them use less unnecessary jargon and filler words. For me this change sounds good, I like my token count low and my agents language short and succinct. I get what you mean, but I think ai text is often overfilled with filler jargon.

Example from my file:

### Mistake: Using industry jargon unnecessarily

*Bad:*

> Leverages containerization technology to facilitate isolated execution environments

*Good:*

> Runs each agent in its own Docker container


I need this badly


Just PM if you want my file as a starting point.


Gist it!



Same. I actually have in my system prompt, "Don't be afraid of using domain specific language. Google is a thing, and I value precision in writing."

Of course, it also talks like a deranged catgirl.




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