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I have heard so many of my co-workers use "load-bearing" over the last couple of months. It's truly comical. Maybe this is a way that we can make "fetch" happ

by chaboud 2mo ago

I have heard so many of my co-workers use "load-bearing" over the last couple of months. It's truly comical. Maybe this is a way that we can make "fetch" happen.

jghn 2mo ago
Why is that funny. I've had that as part of my professional lexicon for over 20 years
- backwardsponcho 2mo ago
  The thing is that some people start to adopt certain "mannerisms" from their LLM of choice. It's not funny in and by itself, but it tends to be unnecessarily pompous words/expressions as well. Relevant: https://www.vice.com/en/article/youre-not-imagining-it-people-actually-are-starting-to-talk-like-chatgpt/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/youre-not-imagining-it-peopl...
  - jghn 2mo ago
    I've seen this too and I get it. However, we should not assume that certain phrases are AI tells. And that was my point. There are all kinds of things I see described here as "AI slop" that are things I just do, and have done, for decades.
    - croemer 2mo ago
      Not in isolation, but if a variety of telltales is observed it raises the likelihood of slop, cf Naive Bayes as first approximation
- chaboud 2mo ago
  I've renovated houses (and I have a bad habit of buying 100 year old hacked up chaos-boxes - my current house was moved from one hill in San Francisco to another 80 years ago, so it's a puzzle box), so yes, I've been using "load-bearing" as a shorthand for decades, reduced to be less jargon-y by adopting "structurally essential" for increasingly international team composition, where English is a second or third language. However, I've been hearing "load-bearing" at least two orders of magnitude more often over the last few months, particularly after uncorking Claude Code for the team. I don't think it's a dead give-away of AI usage, and I don't think AI usage is a problem. I just think we can introduce phrases into common use by having them be used by common tools. So let's train the models on obscure/archaic terms and see what happens. Heck, we can just prompt it...
baq 2mo ago
adjacent surface seam
inglor_cz 2mo ago
I made the decision to always talk to AI in English, in order to reduce the otherwise inevitable seep-in of AI terminology into my actual speaking and writing patterns. Czech and English are far apart enough that formulations like "load-bearing" don't cross the barrier easily.

by chaboud 2mo ago

I have heard so many of my co-workers use "load-bearing" over the last couple of months. It's truly comical. Maybe this is a way that we can make "fetch" happen.

jghn 2mo ago

Why is that funny. I've had that as part of my professional lexicon for over 20 years

backwardsponcho 2mo ago
The thing is that some people start to adopt certain "mannerisms" from their LLM of choice. It's not funny in and by itself, but it tends to be unnecessarily pompous words/expressions as well. Relevant: https://www.vice.com/en/article/youre-not-imagining-it-people-actually-are-starting-to-talk-like-chatgpt/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/youre-not-imagining-it-peopl...
- jghn 2mo ago
  I've seen this too and I get it. However, we should not assume that certain phrases are AI tells. And that was my point. There are all kinds of things I see described here as "AI slop" that are things I just do, and have done, for decades.
  - croemer 2mo ago
    Not in isolation, but if a variety of telltales is observed it raises the likelihood of slop, cf Naive Bayes as first approximation
chaboud 2mo ago
I've renovated houses (and I have a bad habit of buying 100 year old hacked up chaos-boxes - my current house was moved from one hill in San Francisco to another 80 years ago, so it's a puzzle box), so yes, I've been using "load-bearing" as a shorthand for decades, reduced to be less jargon-y by adopting "structurally essential" for increasingly international team composition, where English is a second or third language. However, I've been hearing "load-bearing" at least two orders of magnitude more often over the last few months, particularly after uncorking Claude Code for the team. I don't think it's a dead give-away of AI usage, and I don't think AI usage is a problem. I just think we can introduce phrases into common use by having them be used by common tools. So let's train the models on obscure/archaic terms and see what happens. Heck, we can just prompt it...

baq 2mo ago

adjacent surface seam

inglor_cz 2mo ago

I made the decision to always talk to AI in English, in order to reduce the otherwise inevitable seep-in of AI terminology into my actual speaking and writing patterns. Czech and English are far apart enough that formulations like "load-bearing" don't cross the barrier easily.