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Over the past two months of using Claude, I’ve started to understand its writing patterns. English isn’t my primary language, but Claude’s responses often make me question my reading comprehension. It is verbose and tends to overcomplicate straightforward messages with nonsense filler. You can often find structures like this:

Alice’s approval is the hard gate here — skip it and you’ve built a footgun into the load-bearing part of your release process, and the blast radius of that mistake is exactly what this approval flow surfaces. The release can land only after that clears — and good catch flagging it, because that’s not a release timeline, that’s a wishlist — and fixing it means treating the approval as what it actually is: a hard dependency, not a nice-to-have.

As much as I love learning new words, the whole conversation is still hard to understand. Even using i-have-adhd skill and ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English format didn’t help much. Redditors even call it “Claudish”¹.

I took a break from Claude and switched to Codex two days ago. Reading GPT’s responses feels like a breath of fresh air. I can understand them without too much jargon.

Footnotes

1. r/claudeai on reddit: Claude Code plugin for translating from Claudish to Eng [website], https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1vl0n1t/claude_code_plugin_for_translating_from_claudish/, (accessed August 25 2026) ↩