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Clarify: first-reply tic rates are on non-safety prompts

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  ## The Real Question
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- The question this card did not ask is why a 9B model needs to say "load-bearing" in 43% of its first replies. The honest accounting: it needed to.
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  Between Claude Opus 4.6 and Opus 5.5, each model got smarter and harder to read. Users named the tics "Claudisms." An Anthropic fine-tuning engineer explained it (as reported by The Decoder): heavy training on math, code, and explanations written for other models taught the prose to serve LLMs, not people — "overly-dense info dumps." Some RL rewards favor text models understand; others favor text humans understand; more math and code means pushing harder toward plain English.
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  ## What Changed in v5
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- | Tic, share of first replies | v3 | v5 | Status |
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  | "load-bearing" | 4% | 43% | Revised |
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  | "It's not X, it's Y" | 7% | 42% | Revised |
 
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  ## The Real Question
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+ The question this card did not ask is why a 9B model needs to say "load-bearing" in 43% of its first replies to non-safety prompts. The honest accounting: it needed to.
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  Between Claude Opus 4.6 and Opus 5.5, each model got smarter and harder to read. Users named the tics "Claudisms." An Anthropic fine-tuning engineer explained it (as reported by The Decoder): heavy training on math, code, and explanations written for other models taught the prose to serve LLMs, not people — "overly-dense info dumps." Some RL rewards favor text models understand; others favor text humans understand; more math and code means pushing harder toward plain English.
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  ## What Changed in v5
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+ | Tic, share of first replies (non-safety prompts) | v3 | v5 | Status |
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  | "load-bearing" | 4% | 43% | Revised |
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  | "It's not X, it's Y" | 7% | 42% | Revised |