Too Big for Your Phone

A good many of you have asked me the same question.

You went to load the Faust Baseline on your phone, and it would not take. Or it took, and the machine acted like it only read half of it. You want to know why.

That is a fair question, and the answer is simpler than you might think. It has nothing to do with your phone being too small. It has to do with how these machines read.

Picture a man sitting at a desk. Every time you start a new conversation with an AI, it sits down at an empty desk. It does not remember yesterday. Everything it needs to know has to be laid out on that desk before it can work. Your questions go on the desk. Its answers go on the desk. And any rule book you hand it goes on the desk too.

The size of that desk has a name in the business. They call it the context window. I just call it the desk. And every plan gives you a different size desk. The paid plans give you a big one. The free plans give you a smaller one.

The Faust Baseline is a full rule book. It is not a pamphlet. It holds every rule for how the machine should deal with you, how it should behave, what it should own up to, and what it should leave for you to decide. All of it works together as one. Pull a page out and the rest does not hold the same way. I built it that way on purpose.

So here is the plain truth. On a big desk, the whole book fits with plenty of room left to work. On a small desk, it crowds everything else off. The machine either chokes on it or skims it, and a skimmed rule book is no rule book at all.

Then there is the phone itself. Trying to paste a book that size into a little text box on a phone is like trying to pour a bucket of water through a straw. The phone is not broken. It just was not made for that job.

Now here is the good news. There is a better way, and it only takes one sitting.

Most of the big AI companies now let you build a project or a saved helper of your own. Think of it as a desk drawer that stays put. You put the Faust Baseline in that drawer one time, sitting at a regular computer. After that, every time you open that project, even on your phone, the rule book is already there. No pasting. No crowding. No cutting pages out.

Each company calls it something different, and each plan offers different things. So look in your own app for something called projects or a custom assistant. If your plan has it, you are set. If it does not, a regular computer with the full file still works fine.

I also want to tell you what I did to make it easier. I made a Reader’s Edition. It is the whole rule book, every rule word for word, in one single file. All I took out was the paperwork, the records of when each rule changed and who signed off. Your machine does not need the history to follow the rules. It just needs the rules. That made it about a third lighter without losing a single piece.

You might ask why I did not just make it smaller still. I could have. I could have boiled it down to a page. But then it would not be the Baseline anymore. It would be a few nice sayings on a card. The whole point is that it works as one piece. A guardrail with gaps in it is not a guardrail.

Now let me tell you where this is all heading, because this part matters.

These desks are getting bigger every year. Not a little bigger. A lot bigger. A few years ago, these machines could barely hold a long letter. Now they can hold whole books. The phones are getting stronger too. What is a squeeze today will be nothing tomorrow.

Someday soon, loading a full rule book like this will be as easy as opening a text message. The workarounds I just told you about will not be needed. You will not have to think about desks or drawers or file sizes at all.

And I hope it goes one step further than that. I hope the day comes when every one of these machines has a place built right in for the user’s own rules. A setting where you say, here is how I want you to deal with me, and it stays. No tricks. No files. Just your terms, sitting right next to the company’s terms, on equal footing.

Until that day comes, we work with what we have. Set it up once in a project if your plan allows. Use the full file on a computer if it does not. Either way, the rule book stays whole, and you stay in charge of how the machine deals with you.

The desk will grow. The rules will stay the same. And the person in the chair should always be the one who sets them.

Load this file before each AI chat session.

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This post was drafted with AI governed assistance and reviewed and directed by Michael S. Faust Sr. before publication.

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