You can change CC's output style (https://code.claude.com/docs/en/output-styles). You can also put style notes in your global claude.md. I've instructed claude to treat me like I have adhd, get to the point, and be succinct, ... More or less eliminates the problematic prose.
I took time to figure this out after Fable spat out "...then stays purely as cascade-debugging provenance rather than load-bearing arbitration."
My experience with output styles for long-running sessions is that Claude starts to forget the terse output style by the middle of the context window. Obviously I don't know if 5.1 suffers the same fate but I ran into this issue with both Opus and Fable 5
That sentence is fine; it’s tolerably annoying. As a long-time HN reader, HN is full of this kind of performative erudition and I’m already used to it. Fable probably learned from the worst parts of HN.
Why stop there? We should have RoboCops discovering evidence, robot prosecutors presenting the case to a robot grand jury, which, after charging, is immediately adjudicated by a robot judge in front of a robot jury, with the sentence to be carried out by a robot executioner. The whole thing could be done in like a day, including appeals! THINK OF THE EFFICIENCY WE COULD ACHIEVE!!!
Obviously crime would cease to exist, producing the utopia we all knew this administration would achieve! America would be HOT! So HOT!!!
When dealing with an entity that constantly abuses power, it is safe to assume as the default that they are abusing their power in every situation. The administration is evil, filled with evil people committing evil acts against humanity every single day. It is best to assume all of their acts are a form of abuse.
Not less than a year. This has been in the works for a very, very long time. They needed six seats on the Supreme Court, a decades long propaganda machine to produce a population scared, hateful, and malinformed enough to elect such an obvious empathy lacking charlatan as president, …
Fascism happens slow at first, then all at once. Sadly, that’s where we find ourselves.
I took time to figure this out after Fable spat out "...then stays purely as cascade-debugging provenance rather than load-bearing arbitration."