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I have a feeling this is really aimed at coding comments. I've noticed that Opus and Fable have started writing huge block comments all of a sudden.

• marginalia_nu 2mo ago
  There's been a notable and well noted shift in Claude's vocabulary toward words that aren't quite appropriate, sometimes completely invented. Biggest claude smell at this moment is that it often uses these weird synonyms from fields like law and medicine in places where you'd expect highly specific well defined words in a technical text. From a SynthID (or analogous) perspective, it makes a lot of sense you'd see something like this especially in something like a code comment where there's a finite amount of things to say, and it should be said in a terse manner using well defined language. The room for poetic flourish is very small, so you get... 'substrate' or 'verdict' or 'firmament' or whatever else it's using these days.
• queenkjuul 2mo ago
  Not only are they huge, they often don't even really make sense, or assume the reader has all the same context as the person who wrote the code to begin with. Basically 90℅ of my PR review comments now are "reword or delete this comment block, it's not helpful as-is"