Really spectacular analysis – thank you for sharing, fun to scroll and easy to understand.
Is it possible to expand this analysis beyond words to other Claude ticks? Contrastive framings, sentence length, caveating, for instance.
Is it possible to expand this analysis beyond words to other Claude ticks? Contrastive framings, sentence length, caveating, for instance.
A prototype I did tried to detect some grammatical constructions, eg "it's not ..., it's ...", but I am not sure how to systematize that.
Also just a disclaimer: I am NOT tracking Claude tics, I am merely finding that a particular cluster of vocabulary increases. Tracking Claude requires labelled data IMO. I tried using model release dates in a structural model to constraint the clusters but the result was not compelling, so I ended up simplifying the model a lot!
I think it should be made clear that the sorting is sort of Texas Sharpshooter-ish - the ones on top are on top because they sort that way.
The fact that load-bearing ends up on top is the proof that this works because we all know a priori that load-bearing is a Claudism.