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Posted by aakil 2 hours ago

Claudette: Make Claude Stop Talking Like a BuzzFeed Article(github.com)
65 points | 66 commentspage 2
ziga 46 minutes ago|
To avoid these Claudisms, I asked Claude to add instructions to my AGENTS.md. The first line it added:

  Avoid the stock LLM register.
Sigh.
ljoshua 1 hour ago||
Upvoting if for nothing else than the intro paragraph to the repo. That was hilarious and so true.
markatkinson 1 hour ago||
Oh my gosh it drove me so nuts I switched to GLM5.3, and it was a breath of fresh air.
mcv 2 hours ago||
I wish I didn't need it, but the way Claude talks can get pretty tiresome. I've often wondered why it talks like that. Was it really trained on Buzzfeed? Is Gemini really that much better?
lqcfcjx 1 hour ago||
i hate claude writing a lot, especially after opus 4.8 and it's even worse in 5. in many cases, it feels like playing whac-a-mole and you just can't get rid of all those obvious ai writing patterns.

why do you choose gemini? imo this is a fundamental problem of all frontier ai models.

testycool 1 hour ago||
You can use a cheap model in another pane, and ask it what Claude said.

I prefer this since everyone has their own preference for how the output should sound and it's very simple and transparent. And you can easily ask follow-ups.

It can be via tmux, or herdr, because it can read the pane.

Or it can use a hook to read the conversation file. I call it `backseat-driver`

I sometimes use it as a proxy when fable genuinely does a good job, but is too difficult to understand.

I let the translator know it's role and anything I say it should forward with better context.

I don't swear at it anymore, but I'd often say "just do it, retard", and the translator would actually steer it in a useful manner.

globular-toast 1 hour ago||
I've been using OpenAI ever since Anthropic blocked third party clients. Can't believe people are putting up with that output.
fowkswe 1 hour ago||
https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2090245922685063634

Haven't tried, because I have just been using 4.6 since 5 was released.

walthamstow 1 hour ago||
Concise mode is likely the same buzzword salad but with fewer connecting words and terser sentences. Same with Caveman. The way it writes is fundamental to how it was trained.
sscaryterry 1 hour ago||
Yep, they're putting lipstick on the pig.
troupo 1 hour ago||
The "Concise" "setting" is just an .md file which is basically "use this style please".

Claude will eventually ignore it just as any other style like "Technical".

not_a9 1 hour ago||
https://x.com/_can1357/status/2090360068529111530

Should be pretty difficult to ignore

cmrdporcupine 1 hour ago||
Or just use a competitor instead of being a slave to this abuse? Why are people so wedded to Anthropic?

I have grown tired of Codex/GPT's writing style, too, but it's not nearly as bad. It's terse and factual by default. Even better if you use the "simple english" skill.

I actually found that GLM 5.x is the best in terms of editing documentation. It's still best to write things by hand to give your own organic voice, though. And not insult your readers.

hmokiguess 1 hour ago|
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