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Re: Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude

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Post by nxobject »

wavewrangler wrote: post #212
nxobject wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think another classic reference: Jobs saying to the original Macintosh team - "real artists ship"!

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…

Gotcha! No, I feel the same way as well... there's no way "release" should somehow denote something bigger than "ship".

Re: Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude

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Post by imp0cat »

wafflemaker wrote: post #297
imp0cat wrote: post #197

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On a compatible Logitech device, browsing through the word search box benefits a lot from enabling hyperscroll.

For those who didn't know (like me 5 min ago): Hyperscroll - special mode turned on with a button next to scroll that turns off scroll friction and let's you scroll into infinity (wheel keeps turning after you lift your finger).

Yeah, it takes some getting used to (the wheel is VERY sensitive to even the smallest finger movements), but when you get used to it, it's clearly superior to a regular scrollwheel. Much less finger fatique.

Re: Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude

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Post by swiftcoder »

pkilgore wrote: post #292
swiftcoder wrote: post #291

You know, I kind of hate that having a large vocabulary is rapidly becoming a marker of being a robot

That isn't the marker of AI.

It isn't the only marker, for sure, but Claude talks like a thesaurus, and n-gram test like these highlight that.

Re: Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude

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Post by pama »

stabbles wrote: post #308
pama wrote: post #294

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Interesting use of Claude’s construct! Your phrasing might also suggest that it resolves something else, which is left ambiguous, whereas your other construct would be less likely to suggest that idea (unless you explicitly appended a contrastive clause for emphasis). The bots are subtle. From your example in your GP comment (and in part depending on the surrounding context) I would expect that an empty list would be…

I suspect you read more into it than there is. The original post is about overuse of certain words and speech patterns, which already is an argument against intentionality. I wouldn't recommend treating it like scripture or a text from your crush.

Oh, the use of “load-bearing” is a pretty clean bug in the system context of Claude code. It can be fixed trivially. The overuse of particular language constructs, including the one you suggested, is a more interesting problem; it is fixable, but might involve considerably more effort.

Re: Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude

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Post by jodrellblank »

jodrellblank wrote: post #306
Maxion wrote: post #241

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So all it'd take for anthropic to fix this is to just adjust their system prompt? lmao

Cloud-to-butt extension but for Claudisms? https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=cloud+to+butt&ia=images&iax...

I'd try to avoid posting this on HN these days, but since the guidelines contain a fiat doctrine that "HN isn't turning into Reddit", Claude-to-buttisms:

- "Users can now message My Butt a task from a phone"

- "How My Butt Watermarks AI-Generated Text."

- "Since I'm also subscribed to ChatGPT Plus, I pasted in the exact same question I'd asked My Butt. The difference was immediate!"

- "I've been a huge My Butt fan from its very early days. I've been one of its loyal users since it was still a relatively niche product mostly talked about in developer and technical communities."

- "Since deploying My Butt in our product, we're seeing higher user engagement, stronger user feedback and we're closing more deals."

- "I was at 90% of my session limit when My Butt suddenly decided it was time to call it quits. Instead of continuing with the task I'd asked it to complete, it essentially told me I was getting too close to my usage limit and that it would be better to stop there."

Re: Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude

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Post by sinansaka »

LLMs learned to speak by reading novels which have to use many adjectives and impactful vocab to help set the scene without visual support. So no wonder we ended up with this quirk showing up. I wonder if the researchers in the lab thought this was normal because they also write like this
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