alt Hacker NewsThe one phrase that irks me as overly dramatic and both GPT and Claude use it a lot is "__ is the real smoking gun!"
I'm a non-native English speaker, so maybe it's a really common idiom to use when debugging?
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gizajob • today at 8:07 AM
I’m a British English speaker and find the use of cliched American idioms really quite disgusting. Don’t want to think about about ballparks, home runs, smoking guns, going all in, touchdowns or hitting it out the park.
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socks • today at 6:23 AM
My colleagues were joking about smoking guns yesterday after noticing that Claude was obsessed with it.
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jijijijij • today at 8:22 AM
> I'm a non-native English speaker, so maybe it's a really common idiom to use when debugging?
No. But it is something goblins say a lot.
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It probably was found in a bunch of meaningful code commit messages