> Run Android apps natively on Apple Silicon Macs. No emulator, no virtual machine, no Linux underneath.
God damnit Dario fix Claude already so that it stops using this sentence structure once and for all. Opus is so annoyingly recognisable that it has started to irk me badly lately
Why does it matter if it's easy to recognise? I prefer to know when I'm reading AI writing.
It's just overused and cliche now
I've recently asked claude to be concise in writing documents. It's brilliant for me. You get things like:
No faffing around.Hey, at least it didn't call it "beautiful" or "elegant".
Too late, people already talking like this too
You're absolutely right!
It's not a bug, it's PR!
Some call it a triple construction.
Feature, not bug
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How would you prefer it. Does it not get the point across? Why does it even matter to you?
"Why does it matter to you?" Many Claudisms are grating to many people. Annoying is enough of a justification.
> Many Claudisms are grating to many people.
Would they be grating to them in the pre-LLM days?
> Would they be grating to them in the pre-LLM days?
No, same way "synergy" wasn't grating before every middle manager started saying it.
Imagine if everything in the world you read was written by one author - and you didn't particularly like that author's writing style. Or even if you did like the author's style, it began to grate on you simply because there was no reprise from it.
That's the world we are shifting to.
They would be nowhere near as prevalent. All claude-user output is in the same style, which is really annoying.
Precisely. Regis Philbin, Paris Hilton, Charles Barkley - they each have a pretty distinctive way of speaking and I have always actually enjoyed hearing each one's way of phrasing things. But it would quickly become hell if each week an additional 1% of the things we read was written exactly how Regis would phrase it.
(I purposely picked people with pretty specific speaking habits because yup, the Claude output is 100% that distinctive).
I said several months ago that bots like your coworker, personal assistant, search engine, and customer service are now all the same person. They also write all the blog posts and articles you read and scripts for YouTube videos.
For one, say what it does instead of what it doesn't do
"Run Android apps natively on Apple Silicon Macs."
Yes I got that, but afterwards it doesn't explain how until you get all the way down into the diagrams saying that it translates the code one-time. It's once again like no emulators, no virtual machine, no Android, no Linux kernel, no items, Fox only, final destination, whatever
Cliches annoyed people before LLMs. There is a whole microgenre of essay ranting about the proliferation of various annoying cliches, bits of jargon, etc. the proliferation of Claude prose is simply rendering certain turns of phrase into annoying cliches, which people are reacting to in the normal way. Cliches also get the point across but nonetheless lots of people find them grating.
"Run Android apps natively on Apple Silicon Macs. Uses translation instead of emulation."
No, slop generally doesn't get the point across efficiently.
It's hard to parse, it's grating, and in addition to the strange language you have to apply additional skepticism due to gross inaccuracy being more likely than in human-written text.
Variety is the Spice of Life
If you run a readability analysis on slop it scores very poorly. LLMs generally continue to be mediocre with the veneer of quality without context to guide them.