Comment by chickensong

2 days ago

On its own, yes, but not in context. I think one of the problems with Claude's stock output is it assumes the reader has a firm grip on the context of the output, which is often untrue. Stock output is exhausting to read because you have to unwind metaphors in an unstated context.

What I’m saying is that it often uses metaphors in ways that are subtly wrong or don’t make any sense.