When a user compresses an answer into 'backwards compatability is good' instead of writing 'please default to the backfill migration from your previous turn,' they have already done the work of mapping their preference to your menu. Asking 'which option?' forces them to re-derive what they just answered. Honoring compressed replies is the meta-signal that the LLM respects the user's time, not the literal length of their message.
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