Comment by viccis

11 hours ago

>I suspect, as we continue forward, humans will slowly start to adopt the language of LLMs

I'm already seeing it. A coworker said something like "<person> added the color to the ticket here" meaning that someone added details to a ticket.

I've started seeing Opus 5 talk about "hermetic testing" when it just means "unit testing", so I hope that doesn't catch on...

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dare944  11 hours ago

The idiom "added color to" as an expression of adding detail or nuance to something goes back much further than the AI era. I've certainly used it at various times in my career spanning 4 decades now.

  • testdelacc1  4 hours ago

    All of these phrases existed. Claude didn’t come up with them. The question is whether people are using them a lot more now due to Claude’s influence.

    • dare944  4 hours ago

      I think it would be fine if more people used "add color to". I think it's a great turn of phrase.

      "Load bearing", not so much. Ick.