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1. unified101 · 1790090703 · focus · HN ↗

   Imo we should speedrun to how we can use ai to write well. We'll get past this weird opus5 talk phase.

   1. palmotea · 1790091793 · focus · HN ↗

      > Imo we should speedrun to how we can use ai to write well. We'll get past this weird opus5 talk phase.

      No. We need to establish Claudish as the new, beautiful standard for language. Even if you write by hand, if it's not Claudish, it should be looked at as inferior and ugly.

      Claudish is the real shape of the gate to our prosperity and happiness, not foolish and sentimental attachment to antiquated prose.

      1. chuckadams · 1790092310 · focus · HN ↗

         "Claudish", that's a great term, a homophone of "cloddish (adj): foolish, awkward, or clumsy".

         Deepseek 4.1 has (unsurprisingly) started speaking with a strong Claudish accent too, throwing around "honest" and "load-bearing" with abandon, and just generally obfuscating sentences with dense and unnatural phrasing. I'd give it a longer prompt in AGENTS.md regarding my preferred tone, but I don't care for wasting tokens adding an extra translation layer on all output (caveman mode costs tokens trying to chop everything down)

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