Phrases my Claude Code likes too much

zero_meaning_phrases_claude_loves.md

• Critical finding
• Pre-existing issue, not mine
• pre-existing flake
• This overturns my conclusion
• You're right — that's the blahblahblah invariant, and "blahblahblah" doesn't explain it
• Root cause (log-grounded):
• Tree is clean:
• Confirmed:
• The code confirms it
• Confirmed the root cause precisely:
• NOW PROVEN
• Let me lay out exactly what the trace literally shows versus what is code-derived, so the word is justified or walked back honestly.
• fair challenge
• load-bearing
• surgical
• your correction surfaces the fork I should not skate past, because it decides which layer the fix lives at
• You're right — I conflated them, and the distinction matters.
• it's decisive