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> Claude Code and I spent months on the cat-and-mouse.

To me this a tell of AI - it should read "cat-and-mouse game."

I think AI sees the cat and mouse as individual objects joined together with a hyphen rather than knowing it's a type of game.



It's also the wrong idiom. A cat and mouse game generally implies that the mouse spends time running away and actively evading the mouse. Owning a tablet that isn't receiving updates to a avoid the "cat" isn't that.


^Claude Code and I spent ...

Is anthropomorphizing the tool.

Screwdriver and I spent ...


A bad analogy is like a leaking screwdriver…




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