Years ago, when I worked at Stripe (which had a somewhat unique and inventive lexicon) it was a common term. “Is this jank load-bearing?” someone might ask.

I added a specific rule to disallow saying “load bearing”. So Claude is now saying “load handling”

Be sure to avoid asking it to ignore the elephant

Kids In The Hall had a sketch about overuse of a word or phrase [1]. This is the world that Claude is building for us.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lStcwT_RGrQ

But have we found the seams yet though?

If the seams bear too much load, they rip. Whereas pants, they fall down.

I'll be honest with you: this is why we need to take a belt-and-suspenders approach.

That's not just an observation, it's an insight. Words are doing the real work.

This just makes me angry!

I really wonder if they can fix it. Fable 5.1 claims to speak humanese, but we'll see.

I tend to think this wierd limited vocabulary/style they use is an unwanted side effect of all the the RL training, perhaps also of being trained on their own synthetic content over multiple training cycles.

It’s not just limited vocabulary, it’s low key gaslighting. And honestly you’re so real for that!

Yea I don't get "load bearing" that much but "seams"... So sick of it.

It doesn't have to ruin it for you, but people are going to assume comments with it are AI generated.

I can you can always use an em-dash instead of the hyphen for extra LLM cred: "load—bearing" :)

We need a Samwise "Bear the load!" meme

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Wait, why would it ruin it?

Because it says it more often than kids say "six seven".

My kids stopped saying “six seven” about a year ago. I still have no clue what that was about.

I think it might be like, a praise of inanity.

It’s a frequently used metaphor in LLM responses.

Often for trivial things that LLM is proud that it has noticed but bear no load whatsoever.