Claude's Load-Bearing Seams

45 points | by rzk an hour ago

14 comments

  • scottyah 13 minutes ago

    The only thing worse than reading the repetitive claude-ism's while using the actual tool is seeing (likely human) efforts to reproduce it on every comment and blog.

      wgd 3 minutes ago

      > likely human

      X to doubt. I think the more parsimonious explanation is that a lot people are lazy and/or uncaring, and given the option to avoid thinking while still producing a vaguely equivalent [1] output they're taking it.

      [1] For a loose definition of "equivalent" where they clearly either don't notice the Claudeslop or don't care enough to avoid it, of course.

      bigwheels 10 minutes ago

      I've noticed Claude-ish increasingly creeping into how folks write on HN. It is unfortunate, but not really surprising given how many of the participants in this community are exposed to reams of AI writing on a daily or even hourly basis.

      Given the hundreds of thousands I've burned in tokens over the past year, I'm surprised to not have picked up more of that nonsense (AFAICT I haven't :>).

      Alternative possibility: Is it that people are using AI to craft their replies? Also yucky.

  • datadrivenangel 19 minutes ago
      thelaxiankey 6 minutes ago

      Haha :/ one of the sad things for me is that prior to LLMs I had a fairly LLMish writing style. Kinda formal, lots of bullet points and em dashes, two instances before etc, etc. since the debut of gpts I've had to adjust my style to be marginally more opaque so that I don't get mistaken for an LLM

  • shibel 16 minutes ago

    Love it (the mockery, that is). So far Opus 5.5 feels noticeably better in this regard (oh, and it’s fast!), but I felt the same about Fable initially. Not buying into the nerfing theories yet but if I find myself going into LLM-tilt again soon then I might join the club.

  • WSSP 2 minutes ago

    I was disappointed that refreshing the page didn't regenerate the text

    I suppose an infinite scroll _would_ be funnier

  • lexh 6 minutes ago

    They missed the first legitimate use case for infinite scroll.

  • jldugger 22 minutes ago

    So like, who writes like this and how do we delete them from the training corpus?

      nxobject 19 minutes ago

      At this point, training on public codebases created by "You're Absolutely Right!"-era Claude...

  • nxobject 16 minutes ago

    I laughed, and then I cried, and then I laughed again. Bravo. I'm going to go vomit while trying not to choke it up with laughter.

  • i2talics 17 minutes ago

    It would be hilarious if this was generated by a markov chain or something so it would infinitely scroll. Infinite Claude.

  • everlier 17 minutes ago

    Fable 5.1 makes everything a "Rung". These statistical markers are very annoying.

  • kvirani an hour ago

    It drives me bananas. This post is so triggering.