It's a good metaphor and I refuse to let AI ruin it for me.

Years ago, when I worked at Stripe (which had a somewhat unique and inventive lexicon) it was a common term. “Is this jank load-bearing?” someone might ask.

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

I added a specific rule to disallow saying “load bearing”. So Claude is now saying “load handling”

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

Kids In The Hall had a sketch about overuse of a word or phrase [1]. This is the world that Claude is building for us.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lStcwT_RGrQ

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

It doesn't have to ruin it for you, but people are going to assume comments with it are AI generated.

	▲	necovek an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I can you can always use an em-dash instead of the hyphen for extra LLM cred: "load—bearing" :)

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wadayano 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

But have we found the seams yet though?

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rl3 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If the seams bear too much load, they rip. Whereas pants, they fall down.

I'll be honest with you: this is why we need to take a belt-and-suspenders approach.

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pborenstein 2 hours ago | parent [-]

That's not just an observation, it's an insight. Words are doing the real work.

	▲	HarHarVeryFunny an hour ago \| parent [-]
		This just makes me angry! I really wonder if they can fix it. Fable 5.1 claims to speak humanese, but we'll see. I tend to think this wierd limited vocabulary/style they use is an unwanted side effect of all the the RL training, perhaps also of being trained on their own synthetic content over multiple training cycles.