Comment by mywittyname
13 hours ago
Even when I add multiple prompts into the claude.md file not to be so sycophant sounding and just be blunt, it's responses are full of "the reason it lands...", "that's not X, it's Y" "Your understanding of X — it's better than most people's" or "you already own the right question...".
I don't like that I like it.
The most helpful instructions I've found that curb this: "Do not use superlatives. Do not use persuasive writing style."
I have other more specific ones to avoid talking about things that it's not doing, but those two sentences have covered a lot of ground for me when working w/ Opus models.
I have had success in rooting these out by using the correct linguistic terminology for each. Negative parallelisms, tricolons/polycolons, etc. I haven't come up with the proper terminology for all of them.
Interesting. I've found using the keyword "accretion" very useful for LLM code review.
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