Annoying AI tell that seems to have spiked recently: "honest caveat"
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u/veryslowclapper
6d ago
I noticed that Claude Code was giving me a lot of unsolicited caveats with phrasing like "honest caveat" or "genuine caveat" when this kind of hedging was absolutely unnecessary. I figured other people might be seeing the same thing so my instinct was to use Google Ngram but the cutoff year of 2022 meant that I had to use a different method. So I used Google search with quotes around the phrase "honest caveat" and set the time bound to different time intervals and compared the number of search results as a proxy for how usage has changed over time in indexed pages.
As it turns out, while delve peaked in 2024, we've had a spike in the usage of "honest caveat" and similar phrases.
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