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>I suspect, as we continue forward, humans will slowly start to adopt the language of LLMs I'm already seeing it. A coworker said something like "<person> adde

• dare944 1mo ago
  The idiom "added color to" as an expression of adding detail or nuance to something goes back much further than the AI era. I've certainly used it at various times in my career spanning 4 decades now.
  • testdelacc1 29d ago
    All of these phrases existed. Claude didn’t come up with them. The question is whether people are using them a lot more now due to Claude’s influence.
    • dare944 29d ago
      I think it would be fine if more people used "add color to". I think it's a great turn of phrase. "Load bearing", not so much. Ick.
      • phatfish 29d ago
        Yes, it is fun to play with different turns of phrase, even in a stale work environment. I do it to combat the banality, but not so much to sound pretentious hopefully ;) The problem is once a fun phrase is, uh, coloured by "Claude" or some other LLM, it just turns to AI slop.
      • viccis 28d ago
        "Load-bearing" is fine to me. I've heard it regularly pre-Claude. It has a specific meaning that conveys in one stock phrase. "Adds color to" says nothing that "Adds detail to" doesn't already say, and the latter is more straightforward English that is quickly readable and understandable by even relatively weak English speakers. I get wanting to use big words or metaphorical phrasing; I'm guilty of saying "ameliorate" too much. I'm ok if it adds meaning. But when it's just a more colorful word (note that this use of "color" doesn't match the one I originally brought up, which is also a huge problem) and doesn't add any utility or detail, then it's best to avoid it, imo
• mplanchard 29d ago
  One of my coworkers uses “load-bearing” ironically constantly now, it’s very funny
• neofrommatrix 29d ago
  I’ve been using that idiom since 2010.