Hundreds of millions of tokens a month has made me hypersensitive to these Claudisms. Sidecar Ink Lane Stamp Figure Pin Honestly Straight Idiom Hand-wave (compounds count) Surface Seam Boundary Ughhhhh I also kinda wonder how much of this pervades their internal codebase. —- edit To the folks saying “those are words that mean something”: I had some conversations about that lately. A technical word used as contextual filler can seem “right” but actually be very very wrong. Yes. These words have meaning; LLMs do weird shit with them that pushes them towards meaninglessness. If you press Claude on this it’ll actually start reflexively agreeing and using specific code references, rather than leaning on loaded terminology to mean MANY things at once. I’m not saying that’s better either. And it doesn’t last longer than a turn or two. I think this may be the result of either training or fine-tuning that pushes the model to attempt to contract multiple concepts into these words for the sake of brevity. submitted by /u/petrifiedkitten
Originally posted by u/petrifiedkitten on r/ClaudeCode
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