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  • I do really enjoy the style of their blogposts, they remind me of the Cloudflare postmortems. Wish their models could produce it.

    Not sure I agree about e.g. GPT not sounding this formulaic though, imo it definitely does.

    I don't actually have a problem with the common terms Claude emits, I think they're appropriate for a coding agent. But I do find them overused.

    by perching_aix
  • I don't see why Anthropic would be expected to publish default Claude voice or use Claude for their public writing. No matter how great AI is, it doesn't commit you to using it for everything.

    And they probably know basic LLM tricks like "write it in the style of X".

    When you read a blog post with Claude voice, you're seeing the result of someone who couldn't even be bothered to do that which is why they deserve extra lashings.

    by hombre_fatal
  • I've spent my spare time in the last _days_ rewriting a pretty small document made in collaboration with Fable. It was reluctant to simplify the proposed design. And the language is so dense - it's almost poetic in nature and concision, but I wanted a clear discourse about a complex topic with people whose native language is not English.

    It's an interesting model/tool. Powerful but still chock full of trade-offs. I hope the next model's language is more like e.g. OpenAI models in terms of language use. (oh, and the code comments, yikes).

    by andyferris
  • Ive given up trying to fight claudes language, and Im afraid Im getting used to it and can even understand what claude is saying faster or should I say I can parse it faster now.
    by miranaproarrow
  • Other than the specific phrases like load-bearing etc, I find the biggest tell of all just to be repetition.

    Every damn Claude article does the “tell ‘em what you’re going to tell ‘em, tell ‘em, tell ‘em what you told ‘em” routine.

    by JSR_FDED
  • Same reason the tech execs kids aren't using the tools created by their parents
    by toasty228
  • Anthropic's guide for job applicants on how you should use Claude when applying for a job there is relevant here: https://www.anthropic.com/candidate-ai-guidance
    by simonw
  • Anthropic's public writing style is very different from Claude's because it's written by humans. Even in their job ads they ask candidates to not use AI for any writing (or at least they used to).
    by salvozappa

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