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Re: How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing

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Post by megous »

renegade-otter wrote: post #435
rpdillon wrote: post #353

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't use Claude for a long time, but my coworkers did, so I got infected through a side channel: I ended up reading their vibed docs, noticed "load-bearing", kind of liked it, and started using it in conversation, until I got feedback that I was "talking like Claude", so now I avoid the phrase entirely. The intersection of language and social norms is interesting.

The one Claudism I will never ever use is "synthesize". I don't even know where that came from - no one talks or writes like that - "I can synthesize that for you".

Never met a chemist did you?

Or a musician, or a philosopher, or a biologist... :D

Such a limited life.

Re: How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing

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Post by juvvel »

dpkirchner wrote: post #315
juvvel wrote: post #310

I've recently noticed an increase in "bite". "This will only bite if..." It also loves "stress-testing", "matrix", "anchor" and "flagging".

It's recently replaced "honest" with "straight". "Belt-and-suspenders" is still common, I don't know when they'll replace it.

English is not my native language, but I consider myself fairly fluent. I've never heard the expression "belt-and-suspenders" before Claude.

Re: How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing

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Post by artemonster »

rpdillon wrote: post #353
doctoboggan wrote: post #309

I 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 didn't use Claude for a long time, but my coworkers did, so I got infected through a side channel: I ended up reading their vibed docs, noticed "load-bearing", kind of liked it, and started using it in conversation, until I got feedback that I was "talking like Claude", so now I avoid the phrase entirely. The intersection of language and social norms is interesting.

Its not them. Its you. You are real, this is what matters. /claude

Re: How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing

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Post by Arathorn »

I've been keeping a record of the increasingly opinionated vocab it fixates on:

* Projection (it seems to love to describe one data structure as a projection of another)

* Strand (if some data gets isolated/stuck, it's "on a strand" or simply "a strand")

* Load-bearing (obviously)

* Frontier (the leaf on a tree)

* Quiescence (waiting for an algorithm to settle - I guess this one is legit)

* Honest (obviously)

* Residuals (any kind of data which hasn't been consumed by an algorithm)

* Rescission (something which has been rescinded; rather than saying "a rescinded offer" it enthusiastically calls it A Rescission!)

* Supersession (it's not a session which is a superset of another session... it's the word supercession; something that supercedes; similar to preferring the participle form of rescind).

I wonder how much of this is due to it mirroring proximate things to my code's own weird vocab though.

My favourite so far has been that I accused it at one point of playing whackamole by patching issues rather than getting to the bottom of a problem, and a few hours later it started to say things like "and i found mole 2 in CI" etc. For one minute I thought it was talking about the avogadro constant or backdoors or something until I realised it had committed to start calling newly discovered bugs 'moles' in its ongoing game of whackamole...

Re: How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing

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Post by Diti »

tekacs wrote: post #247
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 quite worried about the way that Anthropic in particular have trained their models to implement what they believe to be safety. When the model has been trained not to do something [1], in my large-scale benches of such, it always says things in the spirit of: - "... and that's a line I'd rather hold. Happy to " - "I'm genuinely happy to , but I'm not comfortable with " - "I don't want to keep going in direction"…

I believe this particular alignment might be virtue signaling to appease payment processors and increase the value of the company.

Re: How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing

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Post by embedding-shape »

leetrout wrote: post #479
phs318u wrote: post #425

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Though I haven’t been a professional writer, I’ve been a good writer with an expansive vocabulary since high school where English was my best subject despite being a STEM maven. I hate the fact that what was previously considered an advantageous skill is now a millstone in public use. I hate having to dumb down and self—censor in order to avoid being accused of using (or being) an LLM. Even though my writing has a fe…

Serious question: is the em dash misuse a joke?

It's a ironic humanizer.

Re: How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing

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Post by Shorel »

phs318u wrote: post #425
greedo wrote: post #390

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wrote a thank you message on Teams to my coworkers on a project, and half of them thought I had used AI to write it. As a professional writer in a previous life, I was astonished. Then they told me that they had never seen me write anything more than a sentence or two so naturally they assumed something relatively polished had to be AI assisted.

Though I haven’t been a professional writer, I’ve been a good writer with an expansive vocabulary since high school where English was my best subject despite being a STEM maven. I hate the fact that what was previously considered an advantageous skill is now a millstone in public use. I hate having to dumb down and self—censor in order to avoid being accused of using (or being) an LLM. Even though my writing has a fe…

I love that in the Spanish cyberspace the tendency is to use more sophisticated and rich vocabulary, and it is common to point out obvious errors. If you understand Spanish, check out pedrititox B-)

Re: How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing

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Post by QuercusMax »

Arathorn wrote: post #485

I've been keeping a record of the increasingly opinionated vocab it fixates on: * Projection (it seems to love to describe one data structure as a projection of another) * Strand (if some data gets isolated/stuck, it's "on a strand" or simply "a strand") * Load-bearing (obviously) * Frontier (the leaf on a tree) * Quiescence (waiting for an algorithm to settle - I guess this one is legit) * Honest (obviously) * Resid…

In one of the repos I work on we have a very particular set of things we refer to as "quality gates", and only in that repo Claude likes to misuse that term in a general sense. It's very much a "fellow kids" type feeling when you KNOW it read that phrase in a doc and so it's just reusing that term out of context, which makes me trust it less.

Re: How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing

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Post by crabmusket »

jghn wrote: post #381
PcChip wrote: post #376

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I've used it since that simpsons episode "it's a load bearing poster..."

I'm pretty sure that's not the source for me but most of my vocal quirks have origin stories like this so it's entirely possible. They're almost always things that I heard which either amused me or I thought sounded cool at the time and just stuck with me.

I have a bad habit of doing this with things players have said on Just A Minute and have just lodged in my brain.
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