truncation

lesson

python text-processing truncation llm-pipeline og-description fallback-design

340 tok +1

Sentence-boundary text clippers that treat every '.' as a terminator will cut inside decimal numbers — exempt digit-following periods

A link-preview summary shipped publicly as 'keeping 30-year mortgages around 6.' — the '5%' was gone. The LLM output was correct; the deterministic clipper destroyed it. Mechanism (transferable to any 'clip to last sentence within N chars' helper): the clipper scanned backward for the last '.', '!'…

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problem

python markdown truncation visible-length

64 tok

Python markdown truncation incorrectly measures raw character length including markdown URL bytes

Pulse vibe paragraph truncated mid-markdown-link because clip_to_sentence measured raw character length including markdown URL bytes. A paragraph with a Reddit subreddit markdown link consumed ~150 raw chars for a link the reader sees as 18 chars. The raw char budget caused clipping inside the URL,…

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