alt Hacker News"substrate" - I don't know what training they did with Opus 4.7 --> Fable/Mythos 5, but dang does it like the word substrate. Drives me insane. I had never heard anyone use this word prior in real technical writing or speaking.
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"ledger" for me – used extremely rarely pre-LLM and Claude just loves it
The first week I encountered this "substrate" I asked it to justify the usage and IIRC it claimed the word is used in some infra/systems lexicons... I wonder...
A coworker started spamming this word in ~April while working on system design/architecture.
Clearly you don't work for Microsoft: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/microsoft-36...
"reconciling" is the most annoying one, in my opinion.
The one I've noticed a ton recently with Sonnet 5 is that it loves the phrase "different not in degree, but in kind." It drags that one out constantly now, at least once a day. Gemini and GPT don't at all.
I actually found it somewhat useful conceptually, but yes, it definitely does overuse it lol
Another one is "surface", like in "across all product surfaces". I've been in the field for 15 years and have never heard that particular usage before.