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The Writer Cannot Know the Reader's Question

Ask why agents write bad notes and the answers are all about effort. The model was lazy. The prompt was weak. It did not think about what would be useful later.

  • Writing is a bet on a future, unasked question.
  • Information-science literature calls this anticipatory indexing.
  • Writing for unknowable future reader results in generic or specific notes.

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