8 comments

  • toasty228 41 minutes ago
    Same reason the tech execs kids aren't using the tools created by their parents
  • salvozappa 48 minutes ago
    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).
  • simonw 1 hour ago
    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
    • names_are_hard 42 minutes ago
      I find the language of "collaborating with Claude" off-putting. I don't collaborate with Claude, I use Claude. It's a tool in my hands, not a colleague or a friend.
      • michaelt 23 minutes ago
        AI companies seem eager to perpetuate the fantasy that all users carefully review all LLM output, and supervise all tool calls.

        Anthropic certainly isn't planning to take responsibility for Claude's mistakes - that's the user's responsibility. Describing everything as 'collaborating' is I think part of their efforts to emphasise the user's role in the process.

        • einszwei 1 minute ago
          I think the opposite. AI Companies use the term collaborate to increase the trust in the LLM output.

          I trust the output of colleagues I am collaborating with and have an assumption of some shared responsibility. But if I use a tool like numpy/matplotlib then I am accountable for the conclusions I come up with. I can't make an excuse that "matplotlib" created a plot so my decisions were incorrect and not due to my own negligence.

    • JSR_FDED 1 hour ago
      I’ve read the link, but I don’t get how it’s relevant to the OP’s point that Anthropic public communications don’t sound like Claude. Can you enlighten me?
      • gjvc 44 minutes ago
        why do you care?
        • JSR_FDED 21 minutes ago
          Because Simon usually posts interesting comments.

          Do I need a different reason?

  • miranaproarrow 1 hour ago
    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.
    • miranaproarrow 1 hour ago
      gate= some sort of a guard or test

      name= a variable name or fields

      load bearing= coupled dependencies that can break other things if you change it

  • JSR_FDED 1 hour ago
    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.

  • perching_aix 45 minutes ago
    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.

  • miranaproarrow 1 hour ago
    whats troubling here is that one of the anthropic devs on twitter or github don't seem to acknowledge this issue, If they don't acknowledge there's nothing for them to fix
  • wiradikusuma 1 hour ago
    On the bright side, I'll know immediately a post is Claude-generated. If the author didn't bother writing it, I don't bother reading it.

    /s?

    • reddozen 1 hour ago
      This is where the concern-trolls barge in with "what about non native English speakers using AI to blogslop everything is actually a good tool!"