I wish I didn't need it, but the way Claude talks can get pretty tiresome. I've often wondered why it talks like that. Was it really trained on Buzzfeed? Is Gemini really that much better?

Related and recent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49375996

"Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM" (github.com/zachahn)

285 points | 23 hours ago | 288 comments

It's such a sad indictment of Anthropic's product that so many people hate interacting with it. Claude is on its way to the Microsoft Teams zone of hatred.

Why couldn't this just be a skill that Claude and Codex could work with instead of something that has to go through Gemini, again?

this isn't just necessary, it's mandatory. that's the difference.

i hate claude writing a lot, especially after opus 4.8 and it's even worse in 5. in many cases, it feels like playing whac-a-mole and you just can't get rid of all those obvious ai writing patterns.

why do you choose gemini? imo this is a fundamental problem of all frontier ai models.

Oh my gosh it drove me so nuts I switched to GLM5.3, and it was a breath of fresh air.

Has Anthropic said anything about how or why Claude writes the way it does? So many people hate it, seems like they need to do some damage control there.

I haven't had the same problems others have but I'm also not a heavy user of it.

Fix: Just switch to OpenAI, Grok, or other LLM's. They provide better performance and respond with 5 sentences. They also don't lecture you when you get angry.