Claude's Load-Bearing Seams

kvirani

It drives me bananas. This post is so triggering.

jldugger

So like, who writes like this and how do we delete them from the training corpus?

datadrivenangel

See the load bearing vocabulary of Claude: https://louisabraham.github.io/load-bearing/ Discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49461817

everlier

Fable 5.1 makes everything a "Rung". These statistical markers are very annoying.

i2talics

It would be hilarious if this was generated by a markov chain or something so it would infinitely scroll. Infinite Claude.

nxobject

I laughed, and then I cried, and then I laughed again. Bravo. I'm going to go vomit while trying not to choke it up with laughter.

shibel

Love it (the mockery, that is). So far Opus 5.5 feels noticeably better in this regard (oh, and it’s fast!), but I felt the same about Fable initially. Not buying into the nerfing theories yet but if I find myself going into LLM-tilt again soon then I might join the club.

scottyah

The only thing worse than reading the repetitive claude-ism's while using the actual tool is seeing (likely human) efforts to reproduce it on every comment and blog.

lexh

They missed the first legitimate use case for infinite scroll.

WSSP

I was disappointed that refreshing the page didn't regenerate the text I suppose an infinite scroll _would_ be funnier

Tadpole9181

Good lord, this is several weeks late at this point. The joke is so damn worn out at and I'm personally far more tired of seeing people online thinking they're clever for saying "load-bearing" for the millionth time than I am at Claude doing it. At least it has an excuse.

NichoPaolucci

The only thing I find funnier than this article is that some people think that LLMs are communicating at a “higher level” than humans and developing some alien language. The amount of ambiguity is astonishing to me, maybe I’m wrong but there’s just no way that two agents in a clean room wouldn’t devolve into absolute insanity.

TomGarden

Couldn't get through it, it hurts too much

caaqil

This is bad. 90% of the HN front page is just pure AI slop on any given day, might be time to start adding penalties for AI stories on HN ala NSA era.

natsucks

this is amazing

esafak

What I want to know is, what would the embodiment of Claudish sound like?

rvz

This entire article is complete AI slop, with the most basic Claudisms present without even needing extensive inspection or needing to use pangram. I thought HN would be smart enough to not get easily tricked into upvoting such low quality articles like this, but because it mentions "Claude", it is worthy of some intellectual curiosity. Come on, do better. EDIT: Of course, unintellectual low quality AI slop posts are allowed on HN. We know that for sure.

enjoyyourlife

It seems to be that it has a lot of meta analysis studies in its training data

porphyra

This is hilarious of course but Opus 5.5 just came out and largely fixed a lot of the Claudlish.

glalonde

This is genuinely insightful.