Comment by 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.
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.
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.
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.
Yes, it is fun to play with different turns of phrase, even in a stale work environment. I do it to combat the banality, but not so much to sound pretentious hopefully ;)
The problem is once a fun phrase is, uh, coloured by "Claude" or some other LLM, it just turns to AI slop.