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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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.
If you ask it why it uses the term honest so much it'll tell you it was actually trained not to. lol
Me too. And it does it so often, that I've added a stop hook that detects "honest*" in its response and forces it to regenerate without the banned word.
Geminis is "it really is". The Notebook podcasters use it _constantly_.
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
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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.