Power user: Claude's writing turned into verbose gibberish after a month away
floatymcboaty · reddit · 2026-09-19
A Claude power user (skills, loops, agents workflows) returning from a month-long vacation reports that Claude's writing has become incomprehensibly verbose and full of AI-isms regardless of which model he picks. Humanizer and sticking to Fable didn't help. The thread asks how others are mitigating the regression — a notable signal of perceived quality decline in Claude's prose.
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