Waterloo professor builds "Claudish" translator as AI agents reshape how humans write
lintool · x · 2026-09-09
University of Waterloo professor Yuntian Deng discusses "Claudish" — the distinctive English style used by Claude Code and other coding agents.
- The style: dense technical vocabulary like "gated on" and "load-bearing" deployed in very concise statements about complex relationships — hard for humans unaccustomed to agent output.
- Practical upside: once fluent, you read agent output directly instead of repeatedly asking for simpler explanations. His translator has topped 1 million views on X.
- The bigger shift: after decades of teaching computers to understand humans, heavy agent users are now adopting the agents' preferred vocabulary — AI-generated language may start reshaping human communication.
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