Do any AIs still speak like people? Claude and GPT chain-of-thought reportedly use 'caveman language' to save tokens
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A QbitAI article complains that models such as Claude and GPT have become difficult to understand in coding contexts, using phrases such as 'ledger 15/15 all green' and 'one leg failed'. Online commenters suggest the main cause is chain-of-thought being compressed into 'caveman language' to save tokens, using 70% fewer tokens than plain language. The article says Opus 5.5 has improved its language ability, while Gemini is praised as one of the few models that still speaks naturally. CaveMan Skill, a GitHub project that teaches AI to speak in jargon, has 104K stars.
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