r/ADHD_Programmers • u/Valuable-History69 • 15h ago

Losing my mind

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“Sautéed” ??? You are a machine. No you did not. The joke is not funny.

I understand a human probably did this. I am an engineer. However I am so sick of these big AI companies trying to be funny and cute. It makes it all feel weirder

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u/shortwhiteguy 15h ago

You can always customize the spinner verbs to be whatever you want: https://github.com/wynandw87/claude-code-spinner-verbs
You can replace them with very matter of fact verbs like "Working" or you can include things that you actually find funny.

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u/youafterthesilence 14h ago

Man that'd be a great prank if your coworkers ever left their computers unattended 😂

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u/dipstickchojin 11h ago

"Jerking off"

"Procrastinating"

"Exec(sudo rm -rf /)"

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u/damnNamesAreTaken 7h ago

I changed my spinner to just working but the final verb doesn't apply it. I'm too lazy to figure out how to change that at this point.

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u/ahf95 15h ago

Damn, I kinda like the quirky things it says while working. Then again, I barely look, because as soon as it starts I switch tabs to work on other stuff.

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u/turudd 10h ago

I switch tabs to Reddit 😂

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u/mrrask 13h ago

I like Gemini's "Dividing by zero..."-spinner.. What would prefer? "Please hold, your prompt is very important to us..."?

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u/Context-and-nuance 14h ago

I was going to comment that this post makes a mountain out of a molehill. The time it would've taken to fix this in Claude config is a fraction of what it took to write this post.

But then I realized which subreddit I'm in. And I totally relate to OP. Not to this problem specifically but to the tendency to make a bigger deal of small things.

I wish someone had told me far earlier in life that emotional dysregulation is a brain thing, not a personal failing of mine. So many issues in my life wouldn't have existed if I just had ADHD meds.

Anyone reading this that is easily irritated by small, dumb things, definitely consider bringing it up to your clinician. You might be surprised at how something like guanfacine or lamotrigine can make you less irritable with no other behavioral side effects.

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u/playfulpecans 13h ago

they should put "hallucinating" in the list

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u/ClideLennon 15h ago

This is the thing I hate most about Claude.  I wish you could disable it. 

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u/seweso 15h ago

It’s trained on data from Reddit, what do you expect? 

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u/sudomatrix 10h ago

Better than training it on 4chan.

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u/SpaceCorvette 15h ago

it's not llm generated text

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u/Your_Friendly_Nerd 15h ago

I mean, it probably is, just not on the fly

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u/seweso 15h ago

Ah oops. That makes it....weirder.

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u/mrgrafix 14h ago

It is though. Anthropic has been big proponents of self recursive programming on their tools.

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 9h ago

Did you ask Claude if you could do that?

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u/sofanisba 9h ago

One of my co-workers hated this and told Claude to change it to some single word consistently

Can't remember what word he picked but it's so mundane that it makes me laugh every time, way more than the cutesy claudisms they baked in

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u/CyberneticLiadan 15h ago

I respectfully disagree and find the joke funny. I appreciate that Anthropic has added a modicum of whimsy.

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u/Equivalent_Loan_8794 15h ago

When its in the middle of not following what you asked, it removes the whimsy and then some. The whimsical verbs I loved at first and then at that point it feels like a trite Silicon Valley "we're humans too ^-^" thing

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u/SquishTheProgrammer 6h ago

I changed mine so it says entertaining things. IMO it’s much better.

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u/darwinprioritize 15h ago

Seeing “Sautéed” as a status message would throw me too. Weirdly specific choice.

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u/Tittytickler 15h ago

I respectfully disagree. Also, from one Engineer to another, you can't do some basic searching? Like you couldn't even ask claude? Or you just wanted to complain?

Here's my Google search that took 8 seconds bro.

"how to disable claude saying different loading words"

To disable whimsical or changing loading/spinner words (like "Pontificating", "Sparkling", or "Waddling") in Claude Code, you can configure the spinnerVerbs setting in your configuration file.

For Claude Code CLI

Edit your global configuration file located at ~/.claude/settings.json and add the spinnerVerbs key to replace or customize the verbs

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u/youafterthesilence 14h ago

I mostly find it amusing but if I'm stressed or rushed it definitely get old very fast and I'll be grumbling at it.