Dev slams Claude's smug writing style: 'impossible to fix', Grok and Kimi read more natural

georgemillo · x · 2026-09-22

Developer @andyhelbig vented about Claude's (Fable and Opus) writing: fake-eloquent, smug, and full of tics like 'load-bearing assumptions' and sentences starting with 'And'—and he says strict global instructions can't remove these Claude-isms. He calls it 'AI for people who never learned to communicate succinctly' and finds ChatGPT, Grok, and Kimi far more natural in style, though with tradeoffs on actual analysis and artifacts.

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