by Steve Endow
[This blog post was 100% human written. None of this post was drafted or written by an AI.]
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UPDATE 8/6/2026: This post by Kun Chen seems to explain the bizarre language that is being used by Claude, and perhaps other models. Chen attributes the behavior to "Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards" (RLVR).
https://x.com/kunchenguid/status/2084004473408753833
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I am hardly the grammar police, but I value linguistic precision.
The bizarre English language quirks baked into Claude Code cause it to use terrible words and phrases that make no sense (to a native US English speaker) and significantly weaken the precision of it's language when communicating with a developer.
What do you mean?
Here are some of the terrible phrases that Claude Code spat out while I was trying to develop software:
Load-bearing
Ground truth
Rung scaffold
First-class citizen
Territory
Cast a wide net
This is the smoking gun
Here are some eye rolling phrases I've seen in public PRs that were obviously fully AI generated and never read by a human:
review knowledge-article front-matter
post a non-blocking, feedback-instrumented advisory comment
