Style is not a defect
Length, tone, politeness and thoroughness appear in no question asked of the model. They are what it reads into the word "quality", and none of them is a mistake — the shortest reply that settles the matter is a full answer.
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Your draft is read against the thread it answers. Six defects, a closed list, and nothing at all about your style — a curt "Yes, Thursday 2pm" is a perfect reply.
Length, tone, politeness and thoroughness appear in no question asked of the model. They are what it reads into the word "quality", and none of them is a mistake — the shortest reply that settles the matter is a full answer.
A leftover {firstName} is found by a pattern, not an opinion, and it ends the check there — nothing a model could add matters more than a hundred people about to receive a placeholder.
The defects are ordered by how sure they can be. A leftover variable is a fact; "it does not answer their question" is a reading, and it is reported last of the two.
Below a few words the language of a message cannot be judged, and once you have written last no question of theirs is left open. Both cases say nothing instead of guessing — a check that cries wolf gets switched off.
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Six defects, and nothing about style. A curt "Yes, Thursday 2pm" is a perfect reply, and no model here is asked to grade your writing.
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A contact asked whether it was a setter. We answered. We followed up with "give it a try". The next draft was told it had left their question open — the model was reading their last message where the thread's state was what mattered. Whose turn it is is now decided in code, before any reading is consulted.
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