alt Hacker NewsI just can't stand how often Claude says something like "And the honest part? It's..."
Like, were the other parts not honest? I don't understand how Anthropic let it get like this, it's been such a clear regression
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If you ask it why it uses the term honest so much it'll tell you it was actually trained not to. lol
I wonder if I can make a tool for it to write messages back to me, say that it can only speak to the user through tool use, and then put a hook on that tool to prevent any of the Claude-isms
i think they took a huge bet that speaking like a ted talk was going to be a vast popular differentiator in their offering, i don't think they anticipated that people were going to make fun of it, that it could become a meme..that it could get in the way of getting stuff done and result in cancellations.
it's downright exhausting to read claude, the language style was a regression imo.
Geminis is "it really is". The Notebook podcasters use it _constantly_.
Sometimes Opus 5 (high/xhigh) feels like I'm dealing with the programmer equivalent of Zeno of Elea.
Every time, without fail, it would get me 90% of the way there and then leave a small note, exception, or deferral. When instructed to address that, Opus would somehow take nearly the same amount of time as the first 90%. And then it would finish with yet another deferral. Repeat ad infinitum.
You can sometimes get around it using the `goal` directive provided you are not subject to the constraints of mortality.