this is my methadone until Claude comes back

phendrenad2 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

	▲	nacs an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		He had thinking mode set to "low" fortunately.
	▲	stri8ted 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Same
	▲	_puk an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I was a bit disappointed it wasn't 42 pages long

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K0balt 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

	▲	Joker_vD 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's like... oh my god, dude, even I, an actual human, don't have that much of self-reflection, so could you just stop writing apologia, please, and switch to actually doing the task?

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jmaker an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

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winterbourne 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Nice! But needs more footgun.

	▲	bensyverson an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Needs more "invariant," its latest catchphrase

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uhuhuhuhuhuh an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

	▲	adriand 11 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I actually think the fact Claude has certain mannerisms is kind of to be expected, isn’t it? If you talked to the same person every day all day I’m sure you’d be quite attuned to their habits of speech. Thinking about a friend I talked to today, I can immediately think of some (“dude! I know!”). I wonder how people would react if, rather than a consistent manner of communication, it was something different every day. One day it would be like talking to a 15-year-old who’s really into anime. The next day, a British gentleman. And so on. Would this be any better? It would probably be rather annoying and we’d just want Claude to go back to sounding like Claude.
	▲	customguy an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I vouched for your comment not because I think this is or isn't helpful advice (I have no idea), but just to thank you for the concept of "narrating the shape of one's own answer". It's something that often annoys me, though I'm sure I often do it myself, but I never thought about what it is, exactly, I just filed it under the generic category of bloat.

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a_diplomat 39 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

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