Anything is better than the current crop of Claudes, its prose has become painful.
When prompted to use simple English without jargon, it's still filled with load bearing honest caveats in every footgun seam it talks about — what I should have led with. <Insert whatever other Claude cliche you prefer>
And I'm not the only one to notice this. Next time it's up for renewal, my team is abandoning it for GH Copilot in order to use literally any other frontier model.
The odd phrases are one thing, what numbs my brain is how everything is evenly bombastic and lacks any sense of rhythm. Technical documents should not read like catchphrases strung together.
I'm curious to know how "Claudish" emerged during the training process. Why each AI has a particular voice if much of the training material is the same across AIs?
That, and my conspiracy hat says it's a way of watermarking the output.