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Posted by shintoist 16 hours ago

How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing(jola.dev)
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mirmor23 10 hours ago|
if llm language is frustrating, then maybe your mind is not on solving problem at hand. imagine someone new to US start getting frustrated with 'hey, whats up?' 'let's go!'; i fail to see what the issue is, other than their own focus;
Jeff_Brown 12 hours ago||
I suspect load-bearing is a euphemism for 'not garbage'. Ad in 'most of what you said I can mostly ignore'.
HoldOnAMinute 9 hours ago||
I've never seen Claude use the phrase "load-bearing"
jonathaneunice 16 hours ago||
Even great words, phrases, and styles, seen too often, grate.

I personally love a lot of the Claude (or LLM) lingo. Load-bearing, gate, canonical, blast radius, and friends do a lot of tight, effective heavy-lifting in my world. I even love the em-dashes (—) and the *bold the main points* memo style, both of which I have used successfully for decades.

It's seeing them in every analysis and post—the constant repetition becoming over-repetition—that makes them the Claude voice shouting "AI wrote this!" that seems to be causing LLM allergic reactions.

jdw64 16 hours ago||
Lately, I feel like as GEN AI text becomes the majority, human-written text is starting to resemble it too.

I'm Korean, and there are sites and people who mainly curate the latest technologies. Even those people, probably tired of translating every time, have started summarizing things with AI. But recently, I've noticed that even when people don't use AI, their writing is starting to look like GEN AItext.

I think the reason might be that people often base their thoughts on documents they've read, or paste parts of content when writing their own texts, which leads to that style.

I'm not sure. Whether human writing is better or AI writing is better—personally, AI writing tends to flow in a very even, paragraph-by-paragraph structure, which makes it good for consuming information. I wouldn't want to read a novel written that way, but for getting information, AI writing is surprisingly convenient.

itsautocomplete 10 hours ago|
This is why when I even sniff a hint of Claude phrasing I close the article and block the person on all devices. I'd literally rather be lobotomized than sound like this shit. The fact that anyone can read AI text without immediately starting to dry heave is a pretty damning indictment of their character
jdw64 10 hours ago||
I actually think it's better. Back when access to knowledge was only available in English, there was a lot of mistranslated information in my language (Korean) that was worse than AI slop. These days, the translations are done by AI, so the tone may be awkward, but the content is more accurate than before, so I don't mind.

So that's the difference. I'm already living in a degraded environment, so this actually feels like an improvement to me. But you, coming from a better environment, perceive it as worse. It always seems to depend on cultural context.

taikahessu 16 hours ago||
> replacement "you're absolutely right": "I'm a complete clown"

Omg, that hit hard. We really need more of this.

ChoGGi 9 hours ago||
Are people using AI to do a string find and replace?
WolfeReader 7 hours ago|
Yes. They're using AI to write Git commits. They're using AI to delete directories. They're using AI to summarize articles written by AI. And the planet just gets hotter and hotter.
jrm4 11 hours ago||
This literally proves it's not "intelligent," no?

"Stop typing in 'load-bearing' or you're fired," would work with any competent human.

But this requires tinkering and tooling?

Gander5739 11 hours ago|
For a certain definition of intelligence, perhaps.
jrm4 8 hours ago||
Right, and I think I mean "whichever one the big companies are trying to sell us on." :)
geoffbp 8 hours ago||
Add “not just” to the list of Claudeisms!
tpoacher 16 hours ago|
Just ask it to aim for a Flesh-Kincaid ease-of-readability score of around 70. Or use ELI5 style. Or both.
drcongo 13 hours ago|
Flesh Kincaid sounds like an excellent name for a Scottish porn star. I'd never heard of this, turns out it's Flesch, but thanks for the TIL!
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