Surprised I don’t see footgun. That’s as common as load bearing in my interactions.
Isn't that just programming terminology? Here it's used in 2016:
https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/random-thought-of-the-day-...
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#302I was pleasantly surprised when I attempted to scroll down and realized everything the author wanted to present fit on-screen. It's almost ironic that this site is able to make such an obvious, compelling presentation without being overly verbose or complicated (something which LLMs have a hard time doing). I wouldn't read TOO deeply into what is being presented, but the author has done a good job to not inject their…
I've found myself rewriting my own words to avoid Claudisms (because they can be cringe and I don't want people to think I'm copy/pasting Claude output at them).
100%. Literally just started writing a sentence in my previous comment and realized I was using a “It’s not X, it’s Y” (not verbatim) rhetorical structure and cringed internally.
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#303Earlier quoted context omitted.
Author here :) Thank you for the compliment! I did spend a lot of time designing a nice experience on both desktop and mobile. Even the scrollbar to select words was non trivial as I wanted the words to be of different size, yet avoid flickering when scrolling!
“non-trivial” is one of those words that seems like it should be a Claude-ism but is actually just the single best word for a concept that comes up extremely often in research and engineering discussions.
“Orthogonal” is similar. It’s been commonplace for decades in my world but seems Claude-ish.
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#304I once asked Claude to replace “byte-identical” with a simpler word, such as “duplicate.” He refused and said “duplicate” does not mean the same thing as “byte-identical” so it should not be changed. He was very nerdy about it, so maybe that is the right way of his evolution.
I think the biggest claudism is adjectiveing nouns.
"Foo is byte-identical to bar" is weird.
"Foo has an identical byte representation to bar" is I think closer to what most humans would write.
AI in general, both visual and textual models, has this horror vaccui where it likes to cram in as much stuff as possible everywhere. This seems to show up both in redundant sentences that pad a text with irrelevant information, and sentences overflowing with information.
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#305I recently started using "load bearing" in my languge to Claude...
Obviously, we adapt habits of entities next to us
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#306Interesting response from Claude, when I attempted to reduce the "load-bearing" in its responses: I added to my global prompt: - Orwell's first rule: never use a metaphor you're used to seeing in print. "Load-bearing", "the crux", "first-class citizen" signal insight instead of showing it. Name the specific mechanism when I asked what it thought of the change, its reply was: The Orwell bullet fights my own system pro…
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...
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#307Author here! Grateful for the kind words, human communities like HN really hit differently when you spend the whole day chatting with sycophantic and bullshitting agents (including to make this page). I'm currently adding a search bar as well as increasing the data to 1000 PR per day. A nice thing that is not obvious on the main page is that the dataset and analysis are updated daily using Github Actions (at least wh…
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#308Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's true, but Claude's use of it resolves no ambiguity.
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.
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#309This is a better way than we use to create the "slop ban list" in our "Antislop" sampler/fine-tuning method. Gonna totally nab the weights for all these words and remove this crap from claude going forward! Thanks OP!!!
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15061
(ICLR 2026)
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#310I've recently seen this mentioned more and more, both on HN and on reddit. It seems these output patterns are getting worse. It's not just Claude, my impression is that all of the current models have this style issue. Their writing can get borderline incomprehensible. Is there some feedback loop or compounding happening with each model generation? Maybe newer models are ingesting too much AI content? If the ratio of…
ChatGPT 5.6-Sol via CoPilot is absolutely fine in my experience - no weird LLM-ese.