alt.hn

7/1/2026 at 11:41:27 AM

Claude's writing style has me on edge

 https://jerodsanto.net/2026/06/claudes-writing-style-has-me-on-edge/

by mooreds

7/1/2026 at 2:26:56 PM

its way too good at using the markers of having something to say, the sorts of things a professor might use after a period of lengthy explanation to make you snap back to attention and listen because this; This right here is the really juicy bit: but theres nothing there. Its using it to talk about whatever mundane thing you asked it to, with perfect neutrality and no substance at all.

I refer you to one of my favorite hacker news comments, I keep coming back to it and sending it to people:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48352444

by RugnirViking

7/1/2026 at 2:53:25 PM

Thanks for sharing that comment, it's excellent. I love the use of "midwife" in the last sentence. Claude would never!

by jerodsanto

7/1/2026 at 4:43:07 PM

It will now...

by xg15

7/1/2026 at 1:02:36 PM

Ironically, the more polished AI writing becomes, the easier it is for me to recognize it.

Not because of grammar, but because everything feels just a little too intentional.

by chaking8881

7/1/2026 at 1:30:27 PM

And honestly? Thats the part no one is talking about.

:|

by Aniket-N

7/1/2026 at 2:50:53 PM

I'd like to gently push back because this is a misconception that is worth untangling. It's not that no one is talking about it. It's that there's a genuine silence about the subject.

by sasaf5

7/1/2026 at 2:15:58 PM

Let's pause for a moment, that actually sharpens the case rather than complicating it.

by notfromhere

7/1/2026 at 2:14:24 PM

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by randycupertino

7/1/2026 at 2:57:19 PM

I feel the opposite. AI writing is like a version of Google Maps where you can see little black and white houses up close, but when you zoom out, all those details fade to white noise.

by strken

7/1/2026 at 3:38:03 PM

I really like the graph paper background. Is there a way to use this while having the letters fill exactly one block?

by cdolan

7/1/2026 at 4:39:48 PM

> Everything I read these days may have been written by Claude, so I’m constantly trying to determine if what I’m reading is or isn’t

I think it's even worse: There are also people who did write the original posts themselves, but then used AI to "polish" the style - i.e. reformulate a perfectly legitimate post as slop.

So even if you're reading obvious slop, you can't be sure if it's actual slop or a human writer "pretending" to be AI (because they haven't got the memo yet that is style is now a negative signifier, not a positive one)

by xg15

7/1/2026 at 3:28:23 PM

> I hear Claude’s voice in a house, I hear Claude’s voice with a mouse.

The new schizophrenia.

by fouc

7/2/2026 at 12:11:49 AM

Every time I call it out, I get downvoted here. But it legitimately has markers of a psychological illness.

by potsandpans

7/1/2026 at 4:08:37 PM

Letting AI write for you is the main purpose though.

It should always have been trained on "is this more readable for humans" but as a actual tested thing.

by nobodywillobsrv

7/1/2026 at 3:19:00 PM

I wonder if all of the fruits of LLMs come from the added training to build on top of a base or foundation LLM but also lead to all of the prose overfitting that we characterize as models having particular writing styles, rather than seeing a wider distribution of styles in response to prompts, in order to produce meaningful work.

by bellowsgulch