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Give A Model Time Anchors, Not Urgency

July 31, 2026

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Nico Lafakis on the fix: don't tell a model to hurry. Give it three facts — what time it is now, when the last commit landed, when the first one did. That turns a feeling into a running stopwatch, and gives it a real basis for saying we've been on this an hour, try something else.

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