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demibabstoday at 10:41 AM3 repliesview on HN

> Unnecessarily abstract phraseology. Constantly using inanimate nouns as the subjects in sentences in order to unlock variety in verb choice, especially when it helps construct a sentence where the real action can 'land' like a surprise at the end.

Example of this? I don’t have a Claude sub so it’s a bit hard to visualize what you mean.


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jstummbilligtoday at 10:41 AM

What they wrote is an example. Very meta.

ahartmetztoday at 10:47 AM

It feels like they have a bunch of people without good sense of writing style tune the writing style. That, or they cannot or refuse to (short term popularity metrics) predict how a tuning will turn out in the long run when people have plenty of opportunity to get tired of it.

KptMarchewatoday at 11:06 AM

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