by Steve Endow
[This blog post was 100% human written. None of this post was drafted or written by an AI.]
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
