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Having coworkers who use it and thus unfortunately needing to read its output, Claude's "English" is very obviously unnatural-sounding, and extremely distinctive in a bad and irritating way. It's almost like another dialect.

...and of course this article itself has a bit of AI-ish tone to it.

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You'll find some paragraphs are half written by Ai and some written totally by me. It's heavily edited from its original form (as it was a data report by codex on our db) - but some paragraphs which were good enough stayed.

E.g. Contrast my human written paragraph vs the AI written first paragraph

Human written:

"The three most popular AI models used by college students are ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. As of August 2026 the data on StudyArena shows they prefer Gemini. "

vs

AI Written "Most AI comparsions are written like wine reviews. Claude is subtle. ChatGPT is dependable.."

its starting to feel that way with newer models. right after opus 4.6, I have started to notice the same

I have the same workflow for about 3 months now (constant). same workflow since opus 4.5 and now with fable (variable). start with a plan about a problem (somewhat similar), write down the plan, use the plan to execute the work. Lately the plans are so verbose and confusing, Im starting to think of skipping the plan stage entirely or tell it to be super concise.

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