Claude ran 'load bearing' into the ground, and now Grok has picked up the same tic
Svwang1 · x · 2026-08-30
A user complains that Claude overuses the phrase 'load bearing' to a nauseating degree — and now Grok has caught the same verbal tic, dropping it every third sentence. A typical case of LLM-specific word fetishes spreading across labs.
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