Did you call it '/handoff' or did Claude name it that? The reason I'm asking is because I noticed a pattern with Claude subtly influencing me. For example, the first time I heard the the word 'gate' was from Claude and 1 week later I hear it everywhere including on Hacker News. I didn't use the word 'handoff' but Claude creates handoff files also [0]. I was thinking about this all day. Because Claude didn't just use the word 'gate' it created an entire system around it that includes handoffs that I'm starting to see everywhere. This might mean Claude is very quietly leading and influencing us in a direction.

[0] https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aadam-s%2Fintercept%20hand...

▲

sillysaurusx 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I was reading through the Claude docs and it was talking about common patterns to preserve context across sessions. One pattern was a "handoff file", which they explained like "have claude save a summary of the current session into a handoff file, start a new session, then tell it to read the file."

That sounded like a nice idea, so I made it effortless beyond typing /handoff.

The generated docs turned out to be really handy for me personally, so I kept using it, and committed them into my project as they're generated.

▲

dataviz1000 12 hours ago | parent [-]

Oh, so the word 'gate' is probably in the documentation also!

I see. So this isn't as scary. Claude is helping me understand how to use it properly.

▲

nerdsniper an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I have noticed similar phenomena with Claude, where its vocabulary subtly shifts how I think/frame/write about things or points me to subtle gaps in my own understanding. And I also usually come around to understand that it's often not arbitrary. But I do think some confirmation bias is at play: when it tries to shift me into the wrong directions repeatedly, I learn how to make it stop doing that.

It definitely adds a layer of cognitive load, in wrangling/shepherding/accomodating/accepting the unpredictable personalities and stochastic behaviors of the agents. It has strong default behaviors for certain small tasks, and where humans would eventually habituate prescribed procedures/requirements, the LLM's never really internalize my preferences. In that way, they are more like contractors than employees.

▲

airstrike 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why would it be scary? Claude is just parroting other human knowledge. It has no goal or agency.

▲

adrianN 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You can’t verify that there is no influence by the makers of Claude.

▲

fwipsy 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

By that logic, nothing computers do is scary.

▲

OJFord 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yes I think that is their argument.

	▲	16 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		[deleted]

▲

rendx 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Computer don't do anything.

	▲	perching_aix 17 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		What's their value then?

▲

jstanley 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

FWIW I have worked with people using the word "gate" for years.

For example, "let's gate the new logic behind a feature flag".

▲

ProofHouse 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They all are. This is proven in research. https://medium.com/data-science-collective/the-ai-hivemind-p...

▲

creamyhorror 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I've started saying "gate" and "bound(ed)" and "handoff" a lot (and even "seam" and "key off" sometimes) since Codex keeps using the terms. They're useful, no doubt, but AI definitely seems to prefer using them.