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Comment by crooked-v

2 days ago

> “the x”, with x having not only no antecedent but also being a coined word or quasi-synonym for something that is already named in the code base

It does the same thing if you try to get it to do analysis of text or turn data into summaries. It will invent cryptic hyphenated compound words to describe things instead of using plain language or preexisting terms.

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