Cutting a text in half without losing content

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You

How do you shorten a document that feels bloated?

ChatGPT

Delete every sentence that restates the previous one, then every adjective that would survive being wrong. What remains is usually 60% of the length and all of the meaning. If a paragraph resists, it is doing two jobs and wants splitting rather than trimming.

Tool steps: 3 (reasoning summary, call to python, execution output)
reasoning summary
Checked the query plan, then compared index options.
call to python
rows = run_sql("EXPLAIN (ANALYZE) SELECT ...")
print(rows[:3])
execution output
Seq Scan on events  (cost=0.00..812431.00 rows=41203122 width=16)
  Rows Removed by Filter: 38996878
Planning Time: 0.214 ms
Execution Time: 11842.663 ms
You

What makes a commit message useful six months on?

ChatGPT

The why. The diff already shows what changed; what it cannot show is the constraint that made the change necessary, the option you rejected, or the bug number that explains it.