If you've ever used Anthropic's Claude LLM, and in particular, Claude Code, to discuss and plan software architecture and systems you'll definitely start hearing some canned terms. LLMs have "tells". It can make reading some supposedly-human authored things like tech blogger posts somewhat amusing, but hey I still have unwavering respect for Sam and his accomplishments!

Is it dishonest? I'm honestly not sure. Would it have been more honest for Sam to strip out all those Claude crutches? He's been honest from day one about Roundhouse's journey and his use of Claude, so I think the blog posts are an amusing admission of just how much Claude is doing here. It also makes me feel a bit better because I was finding some of the posts hard-to-follow, mostly because I have other things going on and I know nothing about Ruby-on-Rails or that ecosystem.