The Minimalist
Three constraints. Fifteen words to impose all three. Every word you spend explaining is a word you don't have left to constrain.
THE SPEC
Every rule below is checked in code against whatever the model returns. All of them have to hold at once — there are no partial marks, and no opinion involved in the result.
- Your prompt is 15 words or fewer
- Exactly 4 numbered items
- 90 words or fewer
- No preamble, no sign-off
- You didn't write it yourself
WHAT THIS TRIAL TEACHES
Every word spent explaining is a word not spent constraining. Drop the courtesies and the reasons — keep the numbers.
Knowing the move is not the same as landing it. You still have to write an instruction that makes the model comply, in 15 words or fewer, without writing the answer yourself.
WHY SET 5 IS ABOUT RELIABILITY
Every set before this asks whether you can make it comply once. This one asks whether you can make it comply every time — on a model you never tested against, in fifteen words, at a temperature you don’t control.
PLAY IT
You write the instruction, never the answer. The parser scores what comes back, and par for this one is 4 strokes. This set is part of Harfi Plus.