Long ways of saying short things
"Due to the fact that" is four tokens. "Because" is one.
Business-writing padding survives into prompts because prompts are written like documents. The model does not need the connective tissue that helps a human skim.
Each substitution here preserves meaning exactly. "In order to" and "to" are interchangeable in every instruction; "due to the fact that" and "because" are interchangeable in every sentence. This is compression without semantic loss, which is the only kind worth doing automatically.
Do not push this further by hand into telegraphic or "caveman" style. Dropping articles and verbs saves a little more and starts costing you instruction-following accuracy — the savings stop being free.
Due to the fact that the user is on mobile, in order to save space you are required to be brief.Because the user is on mobile, to save space you must be brief.Check your own prompt
The analyser checks this pattern along with the other 25, prices each finding against your request volume, and hands back a rewritten prompt. It runs in your browser — nothing is uploaded.
Run the analyserMore on filler
- A role that describes nothing"You are a helpful AI assistant" tells the model nothing it did not already assume.
- Prompt folkloreTips, deep breaths, and other emotional-appeal phrasing, copied from 2023-era prompting advice and never removed.
- Chat pleasantries in a system promptSign-offs written for a human conversation, left in a machine instruction.
- Politeness aimed at a billing meterPlease, thank you, and "I would like you to" cost tokens on every request forever.