When I have conversations with uncritical agentic coding maximalists, they will use "load-bearing" in daily speech.

I don't cringe when I know it went through their head, because they didn't literally copy-paste it.

It's just a side-effect of immersion. It's exactly a tic, and I don't frown when people tic.

Economists say "all things equal" (which they're never outside of economic models).

My vanity compels me to not use Claude's linguistic identity. It gets sooo boring.

And in spite of reading hours of Claude every day, I don't sound anything like Claude.

Maybe I'm not as impressionable as Nolan. Maybe I'm less aware of my own words.

I was cultivating a "make an effort when you write" mental space, and this area only got stronger in my brain with Claude.

I suppose it's a fight to preserve my own linguistic identity. Or maybe I have enough monologue to keep the pressure out always.

Also, unrelated, I already had one of Nolan's blog posts open in my most recent tab. It should prove a thing or two about authentic human voice.