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Comment · 18 days ago
The crash photos are going to be Darwin-award-worthy
Comment · 2 months ago
Reminds me of “sorry this is so long, I didn’t have time to make it short” (variously attributed, but the original may be Blaise Pascal)
Comment · 3 months ago
But not one of the cranks being behind the chainring… interesting
Comment · 3 months ago
Thanks, it makes me chuckle too. It also serves as an indicator of how much it's adhering to what I've laid out in the file, sorta like how Van Halen's rider specified a bowl of M&Ms with all the brown ones removed — if the band found brown M&Ms, they'd know to tell the crew to double-check everything else the venue is supposed to provide; if Clod starts using 1st-person pronouns, then I'm a little more skeptical of what it's presenting as absolute truth...
Unfortunately I don't think I have any other funny suggestions. I do ask Clod to always follow a specific format when it's authoring Git commits including the "robot face" emoji as the first character, which brings a little levity to a commit history when it's otherwise being very serious about the contents of the commit message.
https://github.com/alxndr/dotfiles/blob/9356bb9960e63/claude...
Comment · 3 months ago
Ha, good catch, thank you. I must have been thinking of "inflammable"...
Comment · 3 months ago
I'm more irked by the sentence-structure patterns it continually uses... here's my list:
https://github.com/alxndr/dotfiles/blob/3d099dbf86da9/claude...
Comment · 3 months ago
Punctuation lover here, and it's really disappointing that my use of em-dashes is now considered an AI tell... Even though I use them differently from how LLMs do, the distinction is subtle unless you're a grammar nerd.
Comment · 3 months ago
IIRC I experienced this confusion the most when reading commit messages and documentation authored by Claude in my repos. Now that I've managed to convince it to stop using first-person pronouns, I haven't gotten tripped up by its prose.
I think a second-order effect is that my installation of Claude writes with a less-personal perspective, which I'm also finding a little easier to understand.
Comment · 3 months ago
...or we call it an overused catch-phrase.
Comment · 3 months ago
I did something like this in my global `CLAUDE.md`...
https://github.com/alxndr/dotfiles/blob/272475280d84e/claude...
> It can be tricky for humans to interpret the meaning when Generative AI uses first-person pronouns (e.g. "I", "me", "my", "myself"), so to avoid the confusion whenever you would use a first-person pronoun, always use the jocular name "Clod" instead of a pronoun like "I" or "me" or "my". (Can have fun with English grammar and turn "myself" into "Clodself"!)
> Before printing any of your reasoning or narrative to the human user, replace all instances of "me" and "I" (referring to Claude) — including within contractions like "I'll" and "I'm" — with the name "Clod".
Comment · 5 months ago
500 error when requesting the individual Job Description pages...
⟫ curl -I https://www.getfwd.com/careers/
HTTP/2 200
⟫ curl -I https://www.getfwd.com/careers/job/5128202007/
HTTP/2 500Comment · 5 months ago
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Comment · 5 months ago
Darkly funny that Pangram 3.3.1 thinks "100% of this text is AI generated"
Comment · 5 months ago
I’ve had to talk to company lawyers about specific commits. Case was settled afaik
Comment · 6 months ago
As a member of that group of 1300+, I'm wondering if there's something specific you're looking for which no one has addressed?
Web front-end specialist looking for a job with an ethically-aligned company
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