alt Hacker NewsAs a native speaker, I have to ask it to rephrase 5-10 times a day. Sometimes I actually get mad and I tell it “I can’t answer that because I don’t know what the fuck load-bearing indirection means”. I’ve gotten so frustrated that I’ve ended a session and started over.
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ninininino • today at 6:36 PM
It sounds like you need to invert the abstraction, the communication of your model becomes the fulcrum for your learning, not merely the delivery of your product.
As a Polish speaker I communicate with Claude using my native language and it does the same things. Most annoying and slowing down things are:
- acronyms and shortcuts - it makes it's own and start using it without introduction
- exotic names of variables or functions - it uses them as examples or analogies, but when I ask what they mean and where are they from it gives me answer that it came from C language or some C library (I only work with typescript and python)
- convoluted descriptions of code behaviour - it's hard to rely on a outcome of prompt of type "explain code in..."