No "smoking gun"?

learning some vocabulary had been eye opening for me

like the stories behind when those words first appeared in the software engineering

like quiescence the most recent one i learned

Things like seam, fold, and load-bearing are useful concepts, they are everywhere, and they are more descriptive and more concise than alternatives. Over-usage can definitely be irritating (e.g. these should NOT appear in documentation) but they are almost unavoidable for humans engaged in code review or colab on complex stuff.

I don't want to use more words or letters than "seam" to actually pinpoint boundary conditions and the mechanical details of joinery when the context is understood by all. Too much effort for people! Easy for robots though.. so why are they abbreviating, and why would we want to allow it? A phrase like that permits a human who wants to educate a human to do so quickly with minimal time/effort. But it allows a robot a chance to not mention a filename, function-name, or to not reinforce/clarify it's own understanding or to state specific intentions.

It's bad for human-to-human comms if we just accept "ok, all technical terms are slop now, we have rephrase everything". Now YOU must cite details and sources, and the robot doesn't? Fuck that noise. Seam and fold are fine! Humans can be lazy! Robots should do the real work of explaining themselves without hiding behind tactical ambiguities.

I’ve been using the caveman plugin and I’ve found it effective so far. Chat output isn’t nearly as flowery. Also ponytail to cut down the cruft and effusive comments.

great website design.

i must be the only one in the world that has no issues with how opus is talking. it is verbose & patronizing & secretly belittling at times and like it like that.

Everyone talks about Claude, but I'd like to bitch about Sol. "Unusually" is its absolute favorite word in the chat interface (less so in Codex), and I fucking hate it. Every single thing is unusually something. "Unusually good", "unusually efficient", "unusually inexpensive", "unusually attractive", "unusually difficult", "unusually nasty", "unusually cacheable", "unusually interesting", "unusually decisive", "unusually narrow", I'm surprised I haven't seen "unusually unusual". If I search chat history for "unusually" it brings up every single fucking chat I have from before I added it to an illegal words instruction. I can't believe I haven't seen anyone else complaining about this, it's as pervasive if not moreso than anything I've seen from Claude.

Sounds like this is that watermarking at work.

I want to push my thumbs into my eyes when I see the words "load bearing" and "seam" in code or documentation. I hate it! I've grown to loathe claude a bit lol.

>unit-tested

Some of this is less to do with Claude vocabulary and more to do with the expectation that Claude justifies it's work. That expectation (probably) came from reinforcement learning.

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