Even when I add multiple prompts into the claude.md file not to be so sycophant sounding and just be blunt, it's responses are full of "the reason it lands...", "that's not X, it's Y" "Your understanding of X — it's better than most people's" or "you already own the right question...".

I don't like that I like it.

Yes! The Claudisms do seem to have this slightly uncanny clickbaity feel to them.

Interesting! My impression was that this was an artifact of RLVR where this slightly preferred writing style got amplified to the nth degree. It's probably some mix.

Given how frequently this kind of punchy-but-vacuous slop gets voted onto the hn front page, the hacking seems to be working.

I assumed they just raw dogged the internet and if you do that, you see way more of that garbage than anything else. It's just that most of us have visually/mentally ignored all of that either via spam filters or just, you know, scrolled passed it.

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