[joshvm]

No mention of Claude/ChatGPT's favourite new word genuine and friends? They also like using real and honest when giving advice. Far as I can tell this is a new-ish change.

> Honestly? We should address X first. It's a genuine issue and we've found a real bug here.

Honorable mention: "no <thing you told me not to do>". I guess this helps reassure adherence to the prompt? I see that one all the time in vibe coded PRs.

[glenstein]

There are some subreddits where this trope is completely out of control. For better or worse I follow the NBA subreddit and in the comment sections the number of people who throw in honestly as a qualifier is like way more than you would assume from natural conversation.

[stingraycharles]

I really don’t understand what’s wrong with people using LLMs for these types of mundane conversations. There’s nothing to gain and it destroys value of online discourse.

[soerxpso]

I don't think anyone is using LLMs for those conversations. A lot of those replies are bots. There's a market for reddit accounts that have a solid human-looking reply/post history, to be used for astroturf marketing, so some organizations set up bots to grow such accounts. There probably are also just people who overuse "Honestly? [statement]" sentences. I've spoken to such people in person before LLMs.

[wisemang]

I’ve noticed the honestly thing for sure.

But I feel like I’ve noticed an uptick in people using the adverb “genuinely” in what I genuinely believe to not be AI generated comments, articles, etc. Maybe it’s just me, I got similar vibes about the word efficacy a few years ago, before the ascent of GenAI (but after the pandemic — again, maybe just me).

[pinum]

Similarly, "X that actually works"

[layer8]

...and half of the time still doesn't do what you want.

[nprateem]

And the "final version" statement. Irrelevant as obviously it has no idea how many iterations you'll go through

[pixelmelt]

I found a new one in claude recently with "Fair enough, ..."

[fudged71]

My favorite:

"And honestly? That's rare"

[thih9]

> no <thing you told me not to do>

I see this so often. Sometimes it’s just “no react hooks”, other times it gets literal and extra unnatural, like: “here’s <your thing>, no unnecessary long text explanation”. Perhaps we’re past AGI and this is passive aggressiveness ;)