Me too. I always feel vaguely rude/dismissive when I use them, because I'd never type that way. It's a very jarring product decision, given that Claude itself uses perfect capitalization and punctuation.

No idea why they did it. My only guess is that maybe it makes it obvious in your chat history which replies were recommendations?

I've sometimes gotten title case, but yeah it's really annoying because I'm not big on all lowercase messaging.

This is the one case I don't mind it. Suggested responses feel like they cheapen human interaction, but here I'm talking to a robot that really does tend to know what I want next, and also is highly unlikely to be offended by a less-than-heartfelt response.

This isn't that though. I agree, I hate those interfaces too.

But this is more like, when I've read 7 paragraphs of its reply and want to accept all of its recommendations and go ahead, I can just press the right-arrow key and hit enter, rather than typing out "Yes, agreed with recommendations 1-3, go ahead and build".

It saves me from any typing on probably something like a third of turns. Like I don't use it at all during the "design" phase of a session, but I use it constantly during the implementation phase, where I'm basically just sanity-checking that it is resolving all the edge cases correctly that are coming up.

The worst is Gmail's recent feature to suggest an entire goddamn email that includes cheery little details, doing its best to mimic human pleasantries and small talk. Rather than simply offering "yep/nope" type short replies like it once did, it'll now auto-compose and suggest a multi-paragraph email responding to questions like "How's the family doing?" or "Is your older cat tolerating the new kitten yet?" with completely fabricated saccharine slop.

It's like Clippy pops up and goes "It looks like you're trying to maintain a shred of human connection in an online interaction. Would you like a smiling skinwalker to do that for you instead?"

The good thing about it though is it doesn't interrupt usage at all. It's just there, and if you want it just press 1 button.

Apple messages on my Mac has started doing this recently. Anyone figured out how to turn it off? It drives me mad

I hate that too, but I think it’s more the ux than the concept of a default. There are definitely situations (“here’s the default install path, press enter to confirm”) where defaults are a good experience, and LLM generated ones can fall in this category.

What I hate about sentence completion or suggestion is usually that it happens right when I’m trying to think and so destroys my focus, it’s actually way worse than just a passive option, it’s actively harmful to the task I want. The worst is google docs “help me write” - that may be gone now, I’ve blocked it with ublock origin, that waits until you’re thinking amount what you’d write and then hits you with a distracting pop up. It’s obviously PMs that don’t care about their users and want to maximize some AI use metric.

Anyway rant aside, it’s the interface more than the concept that’s the big problem.

Strong agree. I turn off search suggestions in all my browsers, and I’ve done so for at least a decade.

The idea is that a thread can have many reasonable follow-ups that the user would've accepted, so it is wrong to punish the model for predicting a follow up that is different from the user message, as that prediction could've been accepted by the user if it was given.

The user actual answer vs the user actual answer after seeing the suggested answer are different points of data

Agreed, they already have the HF -- delta versus model prediction can be calculated at any time.

If anything, showing the suggestion introduces unwanted bias.

Seeing the suggestion influences the decision

RL training, the second phase of LLM training, is based on "I did X, was that good/bad?" and that 1 bit of information is the training data.

So you give the user a suggestion, and the user accepts -> good

You give the user a suggestion, and the user refuses and types something else -> bad (plus some supervisory training data)

The main performance enhancer in LLMs is getting high quality training data. So, first, any extra training data will help. Second this is training data that's directly relevant to their product, and thus higher quality than many other sources.

I'd believe any model provider is mining the shit out of every last customer interaction they can get, not just this.

You can press Tab+Enter to accept it.

Sounds like it'll make that project/product super fun.

Little Bobby Tables strikes again!

Only yesterday? Huh, I’ve been getting those for 6+ months at this point

And if you do provide feedback, they also collect the session. So it's a way for them to collect prompts, answers and overall grade for how good the answers are.

quite sure i have been getting those for 3-4 months already.

no, this has been around for months. it shows up as greyed out text that needs a tab/arrow interaction to materialize. 2.0.69 apparently (since .70 fixed a bunch of bugs in it). https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/CHANGELO...

This has been around for so long that I was using it for a while and then stopped (a while back) when I moved to using just the mobile app (and even it shows suggestions, but I have no idea how to invoke) for everything.