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Not only does it scream LLM output, I happen to find it almost always grating. It's fine enough when something is labeled as AI output, but when it's nominally
by roywiggins 9mo ago
Not only does it scream LLM output, I happen to find it almost always grating. It's fine enough when something is labeled as AI output, but when it's nominally a human-authored document it's maddening.
Claude tics appear to include the following:
- It's not just X, it's Y
- *The problem* / *The Solution*
- Think of it as a Z that Ws.
- Not X, not Y. Just Z.
- Bold the first sentence of each element of a list. If it's writing markdown, it does this constantly
- Unicode arrows → Claude
- Every subsection has a summary. Every document also has a summary. It's "what I'm going to tell you; What I'm telling you; What I just told you", in fractal form, adhered to very rigidly. Maybe it overindexed on Five Paragraph Essays
- Wowfunhappy 9mo ago> Unicode arrows → Claude Oh no!! Yet another thing I've been doing for the past decade which will now make me look like a robot. I thought my penchant for em-dashes was bad enough. I have a keyboard shortcut to make the arrows. I think they look nice.
- roywiggins 9mo agooh I think they look nice too but unfortunately they are a Claude thing now :( though I think if you use them judiciously then it won't make the whole document look generated, it's really when it's deployed in the way Claude does that it's noticable