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Re: How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing

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Post by kqr »

jihadjihad wrote: post #134
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.

Another one is "surface", like in "across all product surfaces". I've been in the field for 15 years and have never heard that particular usage before.

That one probably comes from maths, where surfaces show up all the time in geometric interpretations of things. I've been involved in more mathsy parts of engineering and I've heard it a lot.

Re: How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing

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Post by basilikum »

danielvaughn wrote: post #93

It's not that it uses certain phrases, it's that it settles on predictable speech patterns and uses them incessantly. What's funny is that humans do this too, but we don't find it irritating; we just call it a speaking style. But when a machine does it, it drives us crazy. Very interesting psychological phenomenon there.

If LLMs were humans I would find that human absolutely insufferable. It is very much about the language.

Re: How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing

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Post by DonHopkins »

jihadjihad wrote: post #134
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.

Another one is "surface", like in "across all product surfaces". I've been in the field for 15 years and have never heard that particular usage before.

Surface it to say, that's my favorite lobe-earing eggcorn, for all intensive purposes!

Re: How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing

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Post by adamesque »

IshKebab wrote: post #143
danielvaughn wrote: post #93

It's not that it uses certain phrases, it's that it settles on predictable speech patterns and uses them incessantly. What's funny is that humans do this too, but we don't find it irritating; we just call it a speaking style. But when a machine does it, it drives us crazy. Very interesting psychological phenomenon there.

> but we don't find it irritating Yes we do! My wife keeps saying "100%" and after I pointed it out she's stopped. Also I talk to dozens of different people in my life and they all have different overused phrases. Much less tedious when there's variety. Finally most human don't do it nearly as often as AI, and they're not quite as LinkedIn as AI. We don't find it more annoying because it's a machine - it's simply mor…

I went through a “100%” phase recently and couldn’t for the life of me understand why I was suddenly saying it ALL THE TIME. Brains are so weird.

Re: How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing

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Post by yreg »

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…

> It can be tricky for humans to interpret the meaning when Generative AI uses first-person pronouns (e.g. "I", "me", "my", "myself")

Could you please provide an example of what you mean?

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