Stop celebrating Claudish as an achievement to be lauded. It is not high-intellect-short-hand and does not represent the frontier of efficient and evolved machine-to-machine communication. A future Claude is just as likely to misunderstand and misconstrue Claudish generated by a previous Claude as you are, yet will confidently reconstruct a fluent rationalization of its meaning in the moment. This has damaging downstream effects in your own projects, documents, and codebases that you may not even realize is happening! Claudish is thinking-token-shorthand leaking into output without full decompression. And made worse by the reasoning budget throttling that Anthropic aggressively applies to Fable5 and Opus5. This throttling robs the model of scratch space needed to decompress thinking-speak into plain-english responses. This is not something to tolerate. And you should be just as annoyed by Claudish as you would be enduring when a human spews disordered stream-of-consciousness bullshit. This is something to fix, not something to celebrate.

Aug 24, 2026 · 10:11 PM UTC

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In chat, you can really flesh out an idea and get a really nuanced, spectacular project design. Then when it chucks it into an MD file, it uses claude shorthand like "scaling = good" and completely destroys the meaning silently in the background causing massive drift.
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"You're exactly right!" Not only does this happen, but later getting all of this crap out docs and code comments turns into its own sprawling (and nearly impossible to complete) work stream.
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