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No mention of Claude/ChatGPT's favourite new word genuine and friends? They also like using real and honest when giving advice. Far as I can tell this is a new-

by joshvm 6mo ago

No mention of Claude/ChatGPT's favourite new word genuine and friends? They also like using real and honest when giving advice. Far as I can tell this is a new-ish change. > Honestly? We should address X first. It's a genuine issue and we've found a real bug here. Honorable mention: "no <thing you told me not to do>". I guess this helps reassure adherence to the prompt? I see that one all the time in vibe coded PRs.

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pinum 6mo ago
Similarly, "X that actually works"
- layer8 6mo ago
  ...and half of the time still doesn't do what you want.
  - nprateem 6mo ago
    And the "final version" statement. Irrelevant as obviously it has no idea how many iterations you'll go through
glenstein 6mo ago
There are some subreddits where this trope is completely out of control. For better or worse I follow the NBA subreddit and in the comment sections the number of people who throw in honestly as a qualifier is like way more than you would assume from natural conversation.
- stingraycharles 6mo ago
  I really don’t understand what’s wrong with people using LLMs for these types of mundane conversations. There’s nothing to gain and it destroys value of online discourse.
  - soerxpso 6mo ago
    I don't think anyone is using LLMs for those conversations. A lot of those replies are bots. There's a market for reddit accounts that have a solid human-looking reply/post history, to be used for astroturf marketing, so some organizations set up bots to grow such accounts. There probably are also just people who overuse "Honestly? [statement]" sentences. I've spoken to such people in person before LLMs.
wisemang 6mo ago
I’ve noticed the honestly thing for sure. But I feel like I’ve noticed an uptick in people using the adverb “genuinely” in what I genuinely believe to not be AI generated comments, articles, etc. Maybe it’s just me, I got similar vibes about the word efficacy a few years ago, before the ascent of GenAI (but after the pandemic — again, maybe just me).
thih9 6mo ago
> no <thing you told me not to do> I see this so often. Sometimes it’s just “no react hooks”, other times it gets literal and extra unnatural, like: “here’s <your thing>, no unnecessary long text explanation”. Perhaps we’re past AGI and this is passive aggressiveness ;)
pixelmelt 6mo ago
I found a new one in claude recently with "Fair enough, ..."
fudged71 6mo ago
My favorite: "And honestly? That's rare"

by joshvm 6mo ago

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pinum 6mo ago

Similarly, "X that actually works"

layer8 6mo ago
...and half of the time still doesn't do what you want.
- nprateem 6mo ago
  And the "final version" statement. Irrelevant as obviously it has no idea how many iterations you'll go through

glenstein 6mo ago

There are some subreddits where this trope is completely out of control. For better or worse I follow the NBA subreddit and in the comment sections the number of people who throw in honestly as a qualifier is like way more than you would assume from natural conversation.

stingraycharles 6mo ago
I really don’t understand what’s wrong with people using LLMs for these types of mundane conversations. There’s nothing to gain and it destroys value of online discourse.
- soerxpso 6mo ago
  I don't think anyone is using LLMs for those conversations. A lot of those replies are bots. There's a market for reddit accounts that have a solid human-looking reply/post history, to be used for astroturf marketing, so some organizations set up bots to grow such accounts. There probably are also just people who overuse "Honestly? [statement]" sentences. I've spoken to such people in person before LLMs.

wisemang 6mo ago

I’ve noticed the honestly thing for sure. But I feel like I’ve noticed an uptick in people using the adverb “genuinely” in what I genuinely believe to not be AI generated comments, articles, etc. Maybe it’s just me, I got similar vibes about the word efficacy a few years ago, before the ascent of GenAI (but after the pandemic — again, maybe just me).

thih9 6mo ago

> no <thing you told me not to do> I see this so often. Sometimes it’s just “no react hooks”, other times it gets literal and extra unnatural, like: “here’s <your thing>, no unnecessary long text explanation”. Perhaps we’re past AGI and this is passive aggressiveness ;)

pixelmelt 6mo ago

I found a new one in claude recently with "Fair enough, ..."

fudged71 6mo ago

My favorite: "And honestly? That's rare"