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How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing

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Re: How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing

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Post by bitgood »

alxndr wrote: post #99

I did something like this in my global `CLAUDE.md`... https://github.com/alxndr/dotfiles/blob/272475280d84e/claude... > It can be tricky for humans to interpret the meaning when Generative AI uses first-person pronouns (e.g. "I", "me", "my", "myself"), so to avoid the confusion whenever you would use a first-person pronoun, always use the jocular name "Clod" instead of a pronoun like "I" or "me" or "my". (Can have fu…

I'm just glad to hear that we're all infallible. I really thought I made some mistakes here and there.

https://github.com/alxndr/dotfiles/blob/272475280d84e/claude...

Joking aside, it's nice to see a human written CLAUDE.md

Re: How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing

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Post by netniuq »

kperry wrote: post #98

"substrate" - I don't know what training they did with Opus 4.7 --> Fable/Mythos 5, but dang does it like the word substrate. Drives me insane. I had never heard anyone use this word prior in real technical writing or speaking.

"ledger" for me – used extremely rarely pre-LLM and Claude just loves it

Re: How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing

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Post by jondwillis »

kperry wrote: post #98

"substrate" - I don't know what training they did with Opus 4.7 --> Fable/Mythos 5, but dang does it like the word substrate. Drives me insane. I had never heard anyone use this word prior in real technical writing or speaking.

A coworker started spamming this word in ~April while working on system design/architecture.

Re: How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing

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Post by SubiculumCode »

I mourn the removal of Claude's Concise Style. I'd provide it a roughly drafted paragraph, ask concise-Claude to "rewrite for clarity", out comes the same paragraph, but cleaned up and perfect for grant writing.

BTW, this approach also tends to prevent certain phrases like "load-bearing", because it is working directly with something I wrote first. It also still says what I wanted to write (not writing the science for me), but saves me a lot of time reworking sentences into a final form.

I tried to recreate concise mode with a skill, but I am not convinced it does as well.

Re: How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing

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Post by petilon »

kperry wrote: post #98

"substrate" - I don't know what training they did with Opus 4.7 --> Fable/Mythos 5, but dang does it like the word substrate. Drives me insane. I had never heard anyone use this word prior in real technical writing or speaking.

Clearly you don't work for Microsoft: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/microsoft-36...

Re: How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing

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Post by SubiculumCode »

Myrmornis wrote: post #35

I like to think that the reason it's so noticable is that Claude has recognized some important semantics that we ourselves lack a good word for or at least under-appreciate. What term is used in English (or other languages) with the same meaning as claude's "load-bearing"? operative? key? critical? decisive? The honest conclusion is that none of those are as good as "load-bearing". And yet the concept being referred…

'Load-bearing' is a physical analogy. Other words like 'pillar' imply the same physical analogy.
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