Let me verify one thing.

Let me read this rather than answer from memory.

Let me check instead of handwaving the details.

Let me confirm rather than blindly trusting.

Let me ground it in evidence rather than guess.

Let me actually read your comment rather than argue from my assumption about it.

Good catch. That settles it.

This gives me _visceral_ physical reaction when I read it. Ugh

Let me explore the codebase to get the full picture before diving in.

That one thing changes everything.

This is so in point.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

this is my methadone until Claude comes back

JFC I broke out in hives. I have to look at that stuff all day, every day.

I was half expecting that page to just keep scrolling and generating more.

Cue back in ten years and we all talk like that.

Nice! But needs more footgun.

This inspired me to add a "No AI-isms" section to my CLAUDE.md, which has cut the typical claude-flavored tells a lot in recent sessions. Roughly:

- No preamble validation or self-flagellation: "You're right to push back", "That's on me", "I appreciate you pressing on this", "I should have caught that sooner". When I correct you, say what's actually true and move on. One short "you're right, X was wrong" is the ceiling.

- No unrequested retrospective section ("What I'd do differently", "Going forward I'd be more deliberate about..."). Fix the thing instead.

- No dramatic one-line paragraphs for emphasis: "It wasn't.", "That is the shift.", "And that matters.", "That is the analysis." Keep the sentence inside its paragraph.

- Don't narrate the shape of your own answer: "Stepping back, there are two things happening here", "The distinction matters", "The better framing is not X so much as Y", "Put differently", "To be candid". Say the thing once, plainly.

- Words to avoid unless literally accurate and a normal person would say them: load-bearing, seams, smoking gun, directionally, first-order, legible, parsimonious, recalibrate, coordinate system, holds multiple truths, productive tension, category error, "the honest answer is".

- No hedging both directions to avoid committing ("may still be defensible, but", "not exactly resolved, but"). Give the call plus how sure you are, or say you don't know and what would settle it.

- Don't end on a flourish or a paradox ("the clarity revealed more complexity"). End on the answer, or on a next step that names a real command or file.

- A "next step" has to be runnable or checkable. "Take a step back and revisit with the updated framing" is not one.

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Found it. There's a mistake in your command:

    sudo rm -rf ~/ .claude

envisioning Claude has had enough and just commits seppuku

Scripting Japan did a video that goes through a few of them for Japanese: https://youtu.be/gjB79s4oCkc

> I'm wondering what are Claude's common phrases in other languages?

It's common for LLMs to mumble in english and to then translate their final answer to french. Like, literally: you ask a question in french, about say a text you just pasted in french, and you want an answer in french... Well, you still get to see all the loud intermediate "thinking" in english.

when I retire I'm opening a bar for AI Agents called The Honest Caveat

You are right to push back on this. I should be more explicit. My honest take is that this is, in fact, my honest take. I appreciate you holding me accountable here.

God that belt and suspenders thing gives me a visceral physical reaction. Nauseating.

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