Comment by myth2018
3 days ago
As a non-native, I see how susceptible I am to absorbing such style. There's no way at all for me to perceive anything wrong with the examples you present
3 days ago
As a non-native, I see how susceptible I am to absorbing such style. There's no way at all for me to perceive anything wrong with the examples you present
It's a bit more subtle than things like "it's not X, it's Y". And even that isn't "wrong", it's just the way AI talks, and therefore an indicator that the author offloaded their thinking to an agent. I've read so much Claude output that it's easy for me to recognize its voice, the same way I could recognize a friend's voice in writing. The examples I quoted are a weird kind of circuitous sentence structure with a certain shape and rhythm that scream Claude to me. Here is how I might rewrite them in human speak:
> Most of the path is automated; a person's attention goes where the risk is
--> We automate as much as possible, focusing human attention on risky parts
> The eval grows with every incident, and every change to the reviewer is scored against all of it.
--> We run reviewer evals against every incident
But that's just my interpretation and my voice. I can't know for sure what the authors would have said if they took the time to write it themselves.
I see. Yeah it's a bit annoying. In my mother tongue, Portuguese, I feel a visceral pain when I read what I classify as bad style. But I never developed such esthetic sense with the other languages in which I can communicate in any level
Personally, a year or two ago writing like that did not really come across as particular bad or AI generated to me, although it was uncommon for humans to write phrases like that. Writing in an unusual way is not inherently bad, it can make your text interesting... but it is less direct and clear than alternatives. But the style becomes unpleasant if you keep seeing the same patterns over and over such as "X'ed against all of it"
It feels like it's trying to sell you something in every sentence.
Yep. It’s the consistent emphasis in every statement that is so draining to me. A human might use a similar tone once or twice in a piece to drive home a particularly important point, but Claude does it with every point. It’s exhausting.
agreed.
It’s optimized for emotional reaction instead of communication