In addition to the emergence of writing that reads like LLM slop, or is even just clearly LLM-written, even if not laden with tropes that makes it unbearable to read, I’ve noticed the adoption of phrases popularized by LLMs by people in the real world. Examples of this are phrases like “load bearing”, “shape” as in “shape of the problem”, or “slice” as in “let’s work on the next slice now”. I don’t remember these phrases being all that common before LLMs started using them frequently, and it seems, in the same way one might adopt a phrase a close friend says after spending enough time around them and hearing it often, heavy LLM users (myself sometimes included) are adopting certain phrases from the LLM in our own language use. I didn’t expect LLMs to drive vocabulary used between people in the real world but it seems to be happening.

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Claude is just much better than GPT-5.5 at following instructions to build UI. I can’t swap to Codex for this type of stuff.