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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
#362I 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…
Are there evals if this changes quality of output?
I would expect that it does, as well as some of the other directives I've seen in this thread ("never repeat the question").
It's one thing to tell it to do that in outputs, but I wouldn't at all be surprised to find that this affects performance (quality).
Re: How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing
#363I do not mind when I am coding with Claude and it uses all the typical claudisms. I am much more bothered when I am reading a blog post, email, or other form of prose and I see those same claudisms. I guess they are not annoying since I know I am talking to an LLM and expect the typical responses. When I am reading prose online that I previously would have expected a human to write, it can be quite jarring to realize…
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Re: How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing
#364I'll make sure that the script is idempotent.
That's not really a claude-ism. Its an important requirement for a many asynchronous tasks.
I dunno. Claude recently burned a lot of tokens trying to test an expensive task for idempotency.
While the task I was working on should incidentally be idempotent, it wasn't that critical. I never asked, or even suggested, idempotency. Yet it insisted on testing it was.
I need to scrutinize the plans. Or just not use Claude and use pi instead.
Re: How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing
#365Lots of people have their own voice and tend to prefer certain phrases. This has been the case for a long time and is generally not a big issue. Now LLMs come along and they also have their own phrasing preferences. But now it's a problem because what used to be personal preferences of a single person that manifests in 5000 words per day from one person tops, is now the bias of a single model multiplied x10,000,000,0…
They have no preferences, LLMs spit out what's in the training data or what the filters tell it to do.
Re: How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing
#366I hope some day they just train the models to be better, the slop writing is insanely frustrating and I don't think there's a good reason for things to be that way (in other words, they just trained it badly) https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/ai-slop-is-a-self-inflicted-tra...
Re: How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing
#367Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it might be even worse. LLMs seem to get tragically stuck on certain patterns. Maybe it's partly because a pile of weights essentially always starts from scratch in the same condition, but even within a single conversation, it will literally just latch onto words and repeat them incessantly, to the point where it becomes annoying. So for example, current Claude models love "honest". They are always producing…
I also noticed Gemini's habit of getting stuck on things I said. It became evident quite quickly. I haven't noticed this in the same way in any other model. Something's wrong with that boy
Something's wrong with all of them. Uncanny valley freaks.
Re: How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing
#368I do not mind when I am coding with Claude and it uses all the typical claudisms. I am much more bothered when I am reading a blog post, email, or other form of prose and I see those same claudisms. I guess they are not annoying since I know I am talking to an LLM and expect the typical responses. When I am reading prose online that I previously would have expected a human to write, it can be quite jarring to realize…
I agree, though as a side note I'm very curious to see how models will begin steering _our_ language. If you have popular models repeating "load-bearing" to every developer, eventually I imagine developers (especially junior developers who may not know that it's a Claudism) will begin to repeat it.
Re: How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing
#369I strongly suspect it's tokenization that drives this. If we trained with ASCII or even UTF8, I think we'd have much better results.
Re: How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing
#370I do not mind when I am coding with Claude and it uses all the typical claudisms. I am much more bothered when I am reading a blog post, email, or other form of prose and I see those same claudisms. I guess they are not annoying since I know I am talking to an LLM and expect the typical responses. When I am reading prose online that I previously would have expected a human to write, it can be quite jarring to realize…
load bearing, key insight, push back, “it’s not x, it’s y”