Comment by BobbyJo
3 hours ago
I use Claude and I find that it speaks in a very obfuscated manner when explaining things. It seems to make up jargon as it goes on top of spending a lot of tokens dancing around a point. I often find myself having to ask it to rephrase things, or speak directly about mechanism or consequence, in order to understand the point.
Not to accuse them of doing this, but AI vendors have an incentive to generate verbose responses, given that you pay per token
Using Claude for any kind of technical writing makes me feel like it was trained on snarky Huffington Post articles written by a 23 year old mixed media arts graduate and then was told to intentionally obfuscate the most important elements of any text by extensively rambling about what was not done and for what reason.
GPT is less bad for this, which is why I've mostly shifted to using it.