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Lucasoatotoday at 4:52 PM7 repliesview on HN

> I simply cannot stand Claudish

I totally agree, it’s like that as models become more intelligent, they are less understandable by most of people... but aren’t we humans doing the same?


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TomGardentoday at 5:12 PM

Agreed. The more knowledge you amass on a subject, the more important it becomes to be extremely specific and nuanced - or your communications end up being incorrect. You become better at expressing your thoughts, but harder to understand.

The weird thing is, that's not what AI models seem to be doing. The prose is just weird.

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samuelknighttoday at 5:04 PM

That's half true. A very smart model should be able make good explanations, which include simple understandable prose. That can should be possible even as its thought process gets more alien.

Aperockytoday at 4:54 PM

The best ideas are usually the simplest to elaborate. If someone comes up with a convoluted scheme that are hard to understand or be adequately explained, it's usually fraud.

When claude speak in convoluted mess, they are often going off on tangents in real work that you asked it to do, too.

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superjantoday at 5:12 PM

What I notice about Claudish is that it has its preferred cliche’s and overstretched methaphores, it packs too many ideas in a sentence, and to achieve the latter it makes up adjectives.

I should try adding these tips to my system prompt. Is there a shorthand to describe such language use? I am not a native English speaker.

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yreadtoday at 6:15 PM

Yeah just today it told me in a snarky way that my CPU (7940HX) doesn't exist and that I must have misread it and it's either 7945HX or 7940HS. Yes, AMD (re-)branding CPU models makes things difficult but I thought we are past AI models making such egregious mistakes

thesmtsolver2today at 6:06 PM

This is /r/iamverysmart material (by Claude)

Part of intelligence is knowing your audience and communicating efficiently.

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grababnertoday at 5:00 PM

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough

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