I love how 'inconclusive' is at the very bottom of the list. Really shows the way AI is primed to phrase things in confident absolutes.
Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude
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#312Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the enterprise, we are already adopting them. “Seam”, I term I’d never heard used before, is now not only our defacto way to describe the boundary between systems/workflows/components, it is encoded into our organizational roles and responsibilities descriptions. I am the proud owner of several seams, and am considering giving them person-names. The empty space between my inventory APIs and their clients might be…
"seam" is a cop-out term for when someone (usually AI) lacks the imagination to come up with something more descriptive. It's like saying "middle thing". Just name it by what it does, and if you can't, remove it because it's not doing anything. "load-bearing" on the other hand is just a weird way to say "required" or "prerequisite" without drawing any attention to the fact that one cannot articulate what something is…
Claude is also found of "wall" for similar reasons.
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#313A lot of these “Claudeisms” are simply jargon I’ve seen or heard firsthand myself while working at tech companies. I don’t think it’s limited to Claude either; I’ve seen Codex use load-bearing and many of these phrases as well. I think using agents is just like speedrunning the whole experience of working with technical coworkers. Whereas you might have had a few coworkers at your company who used some of these phras…
> A lot of these “Claudeisms” are simply jargon I’ve seen or heard firsthand myself while working at tech companies.
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The difference in distribution between how often LLMs use them and how often people use them in PR descriptions is almost the entire content of the link.
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#314Besides vocabulary I'd also be curious about how it structures sentences. The "X, not Y" is well known, but another thing that bothers me is "It s no " instead of "It doesn't ". For example: "the list contains no string" or "it changes no behavior" or "it holds no directory".
Yes! This is probably the one thing I want to think about but it requires detecting thise constructs. I think spacy was able to annotate each word with a function, so it should be able to validate known constructs but I need some model to perform unbiased discovery.
Maybe some patterns already surface with 2-grams
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#315Yeah, Claude's writing is weird nowadays, and it uses words that are weird and non-standard in context, and its sentence structure is sometimes weird as well. Working with it on my code, it's now frequently making weird word choices such as: - "name(s)" as a verb (instead of "specify/specifies", etc), e.g., "...the function names the argument" - "carries" instead of "contains" - "verdict" instead of "result" - "judge…
Claude is just in its cringy pretentious teen years where it thinks that saying fancy words and long, rambling responses makes it sounds smart.
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#316Earlier quoted context omitted.
An audio feedback distortion effect comes to mind.
Mad cow disease comes to my mind.
"Huffing their own farts" comes to mind. Instead of building Artificial Intelligence, they were building Artificial Human Centipede.
I'd never considered that the 'Gray Goo' scenario[1] or the Paperclip Maximizer, might be informational and digital rather than physical. LLMs might turn every bit of computer storage into slop (goo) and then cause us to go mad turning the Earth's resources into making more computers (AI datacenters) to hold more goo. The GrAI Goo catastrophy.
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#318Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be clear, I am referring to software and shipping as a developer who has finished, more or less, their app. Not that I am against its use, I just never really heard that word being used before, and now I hear it all the time. Thus, what the real issue I have with it is, is because my brain has associated its use with a torrent of crap, ie. AI slop. I hear the word used, and I already have bad feeling about it. And…
imo its a change in definition. Previously to "ship" was a one-time thing that you did for big, highly verified and checked stuff. Physically shipping your software to your user tends to be done after its a product. Nobody was "shipping" a PR, or a jira ticket previously
I can get on board with this...so you are suggesting the usage isn't new, but the frequency changed can be attributed to the scope change, so the frequency is associated with all of the new cases that the new scope encompasses, which in hind sight I'm surprised that didn't occur to me already, it's pretty obvious. I'm probably a bit hampered by the preexisting dislike for the aforementioned association though. Is there a reliable way to determine the difference in frequency versus the difference in usage, or is the frequency multiplier already based on usage? Or maybe I am trying to ask if there is any way to get a sense of what the 17x is in relation to, ie. what is it 17x more than...if someone said the word "example" was used 17x more than it was six weeks ago, I would know that baseline by experience, but for something like "shipped" it's not as straight forward.
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#319Besides vocabulary I'd also be curious about how it structures sentences. The "X, not Y" is well known, but another thing that bothers me is "It s no " instead of "It doesn't ". For example: "the list contains no string" or "it changes no behavior" or "it holds no directory".
20 years ago idlewords wrote[1] "Despite - or perhaps because of - sucks" and coined the term "linguistic kudzu" for annoying idioms spreading and spreading. I suggest it as a good term for LLM-isms despite, or perhaps because of, the way it doesn't quite fit.
[1] https://idlewords.com/2003/04/despite_or_perhaps_because_of_...
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#320this is such a load-bearing plainly presented study, quietly the best I've seen here