How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing 5 ▲ jola.dev 1 hour ago · Tech · hide · 0 comments Absolutely ripping your hair out reading Claude referring to everything as “honest takes” and "load-bearing seams"? You’re not the only one. But what if I tell you there’s a way to take this massive source of frustration and make it so ridiculous you can't but laugh at it? Or just simply fix Claude's vocabulary. I present to you, the MessageDisplay hook. First you need a little script with some replacements set up: #!/usr/bin/env python3 import json, re, sys replacements = { "seam": "whatchamacallit", "you're absolutely right": "I'm a complete clown", "honest take": "spicy doodad", "load-bearing": "cooked" } data = json.load(sys.stdin) text = data.get("delta") or "" for phrase, replacement in replacements.items(): pattern = r"\b" + re.escape(phrase) + r"\b" text = re.sub(pattern, replacement, text, flags=re.IGNORECASE) print(json.dumps({ "hookSpecificOutput": { "hookEventName": "MessageDisplay", "displayContent": text, } })) put that in ~/.claude/hooks/wordswap.sh and make it… No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.