Change the length, nothing else
Using AI
Change only the length of the previous answer while keeping what you name, and get just the revision.
Fill the blanks and it copies as you filled it
Give me your last answer again with only the length changed. - Length I want: - Keep: - Output only the revised version. Don't show me the original again
0 of 2 blanks filled · anything left blank copies with its brackets
What this prompt does
Compared with asking the same thing without the length and format lines.estimate
Estimated output tokens
700
Asked loosely
180
This prompt
Energy (Wh)
1.215
Asked loosely
0.423
This prompt
Tokens estimated from characters; energy measured by Jegham et al. 2025.
What that saves
15.8 Wh · 5.54 gCO₂e · 74 mL — assuming 20 uses a day — the global average is 3.7 (Chatterji et al. 2025)
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Reported backfire — Specifying output lengthSpecifying a length longer than needed backfires (a 34% increase in 11% of scenarios)
Where these figures come from
Published figures for the rule itself — not what this prompt saves.
Specifying output length
38.7%mean reduction · 95% CI 29.7–47.7%
Podder et al. 2026 BP#5 · 18 use cases / 57 prompts
by modelGPT-4o 35%Command R+ 49%Mistral-7B 32%
Reduced in every scenario. No backfire reported