Edit a personal statement I wrote
WritingWork & Email
Edit a statement you already wrote to the question and character limit, with a short note on what changed.
Fill the blanks and it copies as you filled it
[Paste the answer you wrote]
Edit the text above.
- The question:
- Character limit:
- The strength I want to come through:
- Give me one edited version, then three lines or fewer on what you changed and why0 of 3 blanks filled · anything left blank copies with its brackets
Setting a length means cutting padding, not writing stiffly. For writing that needs to be roundabout — a personal statement, an email to a professor — add a line about tone. The paper also reports that specifying a length shorter than the task needs backfires, because it drives follow-up questions (a 34% increase in 11% of scenarios).
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
Token counts are estimated from character counts, not measured. Energy uses the per-band figures measured by Jegham et al. 2025 as published.
What that saves
15.8 Wh · 5.54 gCO₂e · 74 mL — assuming 20 uses a day
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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
We read the prompt to see whether it carries that instruction. The percentages below are published figures for the rule itself, not a measurement of 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