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> Is this a troll post? Claude is not "programmed" at all.

I could ask you the same. Are you trying to say AIs cannot be made to prefer behaving in certain ways? Because if so, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.

“I found these issues.” Could be easily written as “These issues surfaced.”.

Do you need to point out the finder of the issues? Easy.

“Tool x ran for x amount of time and surfaced these issues…” “Parsing x code surfaced these issues.”

I don’t understand why are people pretending like the English language is incapable of transmitting information without personal pronouns when every program under the sun has always been written to interface with humans in a cold, detached, straight-to-the-point and impersonal way.

Finder doesn’t ask you “I see you want ME to delete these files. Want ME to do that for you?”. Toolbars don’t feature “Create a new file for me” options, terminal utilities don’t report back with “I’ve pattern matched the text you input and here’s the results I’ve found”.

Except in this case this makes 0 sense since AIs are sycophantic by nature. You tell it to do something and it just does it. If it can burn tokens trying to sound more human (which is programmed in, not a byproduct), then it can very well just not do that and get on with the work.

Impersonating a human does nothing to help it solve problems faster, quite the contrary in fact, it has to waste even more time coming up with human-like speech patterns to present the work done.

It shouldn’t assume any personality unless I explicitly tell it to. It is a tool until I tell it otherwise.

> You're anthropomorphizing in the same breath that you criticize anthropomorphism.

Nice attempt at a “aha, gotcha!” comment, but sadly you’re too off-mark for it to work.

> Claude predicts the next token of the predominantly human training input, and humans use "I".

This is inconsequential. It could very well be programmed to not assume such a personified stance, and yet here we are. Nothing you do makes it drop this ridiculous facade. It’s intentional, not a byproduct.

I want it to use nothing. Use impersonal statements. Say “X was changed for Y” not “I changed X for Y”. As any tool would.

Finder doesn’t ask “Do you want ME to delete this file?”. Photoshop doesn’t ask “Do you want ME to save this file?”. Claude shouldn’t assume itself to be a person either.

> You could be writing from the perspective of a slab of concrete and you'd use "I".

Except this isn’t prose. Claude is not telling me a story from the point of view of a concrete slab. It is assuming personality to present objective facts. If my entire operating system can be interfaced with without it referring to itself as “I” then so can Claude.