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> Its use of "dense jargon" and "stilted metaphor" is actually surprisingly consistent - it's speaking its own dialect, and you get used to it.

This dialect is idiosyncratic to you and Claude based on your session history and memory.

I've noticed Claude's output mimics my writing style.

> Registers the board implements but whose behaviour is not modelled

Right down to my preferred spellings.

As several comments I've read on HN suggest, this jargon which can be so precise in the mind of one person, tends to rapidly fall apart when multiple people try handling it.

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You're just lucky that your preferred spelling happens to align with Claude's. It is categorically impossible to get any Anthropic model to consistently use American spelling in the last few releases.

It told me to correct a spelling mistake in some content I was sanity checking earlier..

It was British English.

that is not my experience at all; I never write the way Claude does or use its vocabulary.

I also find myself regularly editing its code comments, which do not match my expectations of succinct, clear, not over explained, etc. I ask it to read my edited comments to improve its writing, which has helped _somewhat_. (The code itself that it writes is decent, though it still overcomplicates things. I find myself writing "keep it simple" repeatedly even though of course I have it in AGENTS (which it regularly ignores, such as attempting to commit something when I've told it never to commit).

The only solution I’ve found that works is asking Mistral medium to rewrite all of Claude’s documentation and comments, then I review and rewrite the final draft for anything mistral misunderstood.

I find Claude has become very difficult to work with and incapable of writing clear documentation, even when directly prompted or provided samples.

As for code, I think each function requires 3-4 passes with Fable to actually get to a point I accept as good code. I am picky though.

The other Claudism that drives me crazy is when it writes comments and commit messages that track how you arrived at an decision instead of what it is.

> The other Claudism that drives me crazy is when it writes comments and commit messages that track how you arrived at an decision instead of what it is.

yes, this is part of what I'm continuously removing from its comments; I've told it multiple times "that belongs in a ticket, not in the code" but to little avail :/

I concur. It even follows some idiosyncratic punctuation if you have it.-

Ha, interesting.

My Claude has developed similar (but not identical) idiosyncratic punctuation as well. Slightly intentionally, but it was still interesting to see it emerge, in both directions of the conversation.-

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