Having used Claude a lot for the past four months, I get exhausted from its style. Every sentence has been buffed and polished and enhanced and it never just plainly says a thing. It's as if you have to eat every meal with every possible flavor enhancer in existence. At one point I will totally lose it if it mentions "smoke test" one more time.

It is also totally not what I want for docstrings in code or Powerpoint drafts, where consistency in language is critical.

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Sharlin 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Like I said in another thread, everything Claude (Code) writes sounds like it’s congratulating itself of how smart it is. While not actually being that smart.

	▲	jeltz 19 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It writes like me when I was 14 and thought I was very smart.

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km144 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I believe AI technical prose peaked with Opus 4.6. I still use it (mostly for that purpose) and I think it's legitimately great. I'm hoping they are able to reverse the trends that benchmaxxing and RLAIF have wrought on Claude's non-code output with the future models.

	▲	unshavedyak 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Now that the public anger is growing i really hope Anthropics next models seriously address this. Or for that matter, i hope everyone (OpenAI/etc) starts focusing on this too. Intelligence is important but it feels as if the LLM is only capable of conveying information while drenching it in vomit.

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alt227 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I use Claude daily and I have never heard it say 'Smoke Test' once.

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k3liutZu 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Have a bit of food dropped into the MSG container. Now eat the whole container