Applying them to only one side of the conversation doesn't seem practical.

That's your worldview. Crocker's rules is that you don't have to take receiver feelings into account you just communicate efficently.

Not sure if it's a common knowledge but I've learned not that long ago that you can do "/compact your instructions here", if you just say what you are working on or what to keep explicitly it's much less painful.

In general LLMs for some reason are really bad at designing prompts for themselves. I tested it heavily on some data where there was a clear optimization function and ability to evaluate the results, and I easily beat opus every time with my chaotic full of typos prompts vs its methodological ones when it is writing instructions for itself or for other LLMs.

Your sim card is an entire computer.