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I think it's good advice. I find it a bit funny the author said to not use a single word coming out of the LLM, but they probably did just that because I never

I think it's good advice. I find it a bit funny the author said to not use a single word coming out of the LLM, but they probably did just that because I never heard a human being say "load-bearing" before but now it's all over the place, also used here. Or I don't get the irony.

duckerduck 16d ago
The "load bearing" term has become a bit of a meme, given the author is familiar with these AI-isms, we can assume it's a subtle joke.
LtWorf 16d ago
In the simpsons there was a load bearing poster in their home, IIRC.
skydhash 15d ago
> but they probably did just that because I never heard a human being say "load-bearing" before but now it's all over the place I have but it was a house construction worker explaining its practice on youtube.
jameshart 15d ago
If you’re familiar with tptacek’s writing you would be confident this is deliberate and recognize it as an ‘I see what he did there’ moment. If not, it does risk planting the seed of doubt - have I been duped once again into reading tokenslop again? Risky move. Surprised the LLM copy editor didn’t flag it.
- swah 15d ago
  What they took from us....
lkbm 15d ago
It's been a common phrase for many years.[0] [0] https://x.com/search?q=%22load%20bearing%22%20until%3A2020-01-01%20-wall&src=typed_query&f=top https://x.com/search?q=%22load%20bearing%22%20until%3A2020-0...
inkcapmushroom 15d ago
The irony comes in the last sentence: "Readers won’t put their fingers on what’s wrong, but they’ll sense that you’ve become artificially-flavored." The joke is that he wrote the preceding sentences in the paragraph in a way that intentionally plays up written-by-LLM-isms so that you feel the sense being described in the quoted sentence.
dilyevsky 15d ago
load-bearing was a meme phrase used sarcastically on twitter long before claude started overusing it.

duckerduck 16d ago

The "load bearing" term has become a bit of a meme, given the author is familiar with these AI-isms, we can assume it's a subtle joke.

LtWorf 16d ago

In the simpsons there was a load bearing poster in their home, IIRC.

skydhash 15d ago

> but they probably did just that because I never heard a human being say "load-bearing" before but now it's all over the place I have but it was a house construction worker explaining its practice on youtube.

jameshart 15d ago

If you’re familiar with tptacek’s writing you would be confident this is deliberate and recognize it as an ‘I see what he did there’ moment. If not, it does risk planting the seed of doubt - have I been duped once again into reading tokenslop again? Risky move. Surprised the LLM copy editor didn’t flag it.

swah 15d ago
What they took from us....

lkbm 15d ago

It's been a common phrase for many years.[0] [0] https://x.com/search?q=%22load%20bearing%22%20until%3A2020-01-01%20-wall&src=typed_query&f=top https://x.com/search?q=%22load%20bearing%22%20until%3A2020-0...

inkcapmushroom 15d ago

The irony comes in the last sentence: "Readers won’t put their fingers on what’s wrong, but they’ll sense that you’ve become artificially-flavored." The joke is that he wrote the preceding sentences in the paragraph in a way that intentionally plays up written-by-LLM-isms so that you feel the sense being described in the quoted sentence.

dilyevsky 15d ago

load-bearing was a meme phrase used sarcastically on twitter long before claude started overusing it.