Claude keeps inventing vocabulary in codebases, frustrating devs
AmbitiousBranch6805 · reddit · 2026-08-01
A developer complains that Claude tends to coin its own terms when coding (like using 'blast radius' for scope or 'fan out' for parallel tasks) and consistently uses them across multiple files without definition.
While the terms aren't strictly wrong, this behavior pollutes the project's domain language, making future maintenance and team collaboration unnecessarily difficult. The author has tried prompting it to use plain terminology, but with limited success.
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