I have a very weird tangential nit to pick: gendering LLMs. I swear I'm not pushing any sort of gender agenda/discussion that can be had anytime anywhere else in the current age, but to me there is something quintessentially a-gendered about the output of a computer program.

Calling Claude (or GPT-5 or Gemini or my bash terminal for that matter) a "he" seems absurd to the point of hilarity.

In my mind, they've always firmly been "it"s.

Does it happen much with non-Claude models? If someone genders ChatGPT, it makes me worry that they're taking the character it's playing too literally. But if someone genders Claude, that seems pretty normal, given that it has a man's name.

This felt quirky to me as well, possibly because my native language is strictly gendered.

Hm, Claude is a common male surname, especially in Europe. That plays into it. Also many people - including me - have personalised their AI chats, have given it names, even something resembling a personality (it's easy with prefix prompts). Why others do it, who knows, I do it because I find it a lot less frustrating when ChatGPT fucks up when it pretends to be a young adult female klutz.

Sounds like the setup for a sexist comedian's routine. "Y'know, ChatGPT is totally a woman because she reminds me of my wife. She thinks it knows everything and is convinced she's right, when she's totally full of shit! And what's the deal with airline food?" Swap the gender depending on your target audience.

In other languages, chairs have a gender, along with other everyday items like scissors and it doesn't especially make logical sense, although you can squint and tell a story as why something is the gender that's been assigned. Thus making the gender of AI simply a matter"that's just how things are".