Comment by api
13 hours ago
It's more likely that this is from the training data if they're being trained on reams of Internet stuff.
13 hours ago
It's more likely that this is from the training data if they're being trained on reams of Internet stuff.
To me it has a writerly New Yorker vibe to it, as in the magazine which reads as “polished” and probably performs well in RL but is totally exhausting to read in long sessions and completely inappropriate for coding where precision is paramount above all. In writing terms its called purple prose.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_prose
The New Yorker may be pretentious but it's generally not unreadable like Opus.
Claude is unreadable and sometimes pretentious.-
Isn’t most of the internet slop by now? Self-reinforcing feedback loop.
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