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    From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.misc on Sat Aug 22 04:50:16 2026
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    IrCOve been rereading old collections of rCLDilbertrCY cartoons, and then
    this article <https://www.infoworld.com/article/4211958/anthropics-opus-language-problems-may-be-creating-a-hidden-cost-for-ai-coding.html>
    popped up on my feed. Seems there may be issues with recent versions
    of AnthropicrCOs Opus AI which cause it to, um, pad out its responses a
    bit.

    The overlap between truth and fiction/satire is getting downright
    uncanny. From the first GitHub bug report cited:

    * repeatedly propagates the terms "Load bearing", "prose"
    (instead of text), "Hand-waving" (for being lazy/not putting
    in effort), "Reflexive hedging", "Honest framing" , and lots
    of other highly unusual terms it propagates as fact.
    * Leads every sentence with what something isn't, instead of
    what it is. E.g, "It is not Y. It is X."
    * Made-up jargon / aphorisms presented as if standard:
    "instrumentation is the unlock", "this is where a VP smells
    hand-waving", "say the wrong expansion to a growth VP and it
    dents you".
    * Forced metaphors invented on the spot that require decoding
    rather than aiding comprehension.

    ...

    Real examples users quoted:

    ruA "They're tightening, term-locking, and having the counter-probe
    ruA answer loaded."
    ruA "None of these are 'you don't get it' gaps."
    ruA Fable 5: "The dice: clean rCo and one die never gets rolled
    ruA anymore."

    Heck, letrCOs face it: Scott Adams never came up with anything so far
    outside the realms of normal human comprehensibility; it could very
    well be that no normal human mind could go where the AI goes -- and
    remain sane, anyway.

    Looks like truth is leaving fiction in the dust, yet again ...
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