Ethan Mollick says AI tools inject dramatic and overwrought language into minor UI elements that is hard to purge
Software engineer Nick Dobos calls cleaning this text codebase gardening
Software engineer Nick Dobos calls cleaning this text codebase gardening
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Highest rankedin less than 5 years time we'll all be speaking the same lingo as today's Claude models its some kind of silent, global psycho-programming. it stems from people dropping AI-written (somewhat useful) slop directly into company docs, code comments, product specs, etc. i'm already noticing many people use words like "land", "smoke test", etc. and i HATE it
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The overwrought language of Fable is an ongoing problem in software and design projects where the AI is otherwise excellent. It just creeps into little bits of text and toasts and menus, even if you try to instruct otherwise. And once it gets in it is hard to purge completely.

