15 March 2026 · Originally published on LinkedIn

[Me & X] Coding tips: spinner verbs

X : What tips do you have for coding with AI?

Me : Use Claude. Change settings.json to include the following (it will appear in your primary agent if you're running a swarm or agent team):

"spinnerVerbs": {
    "mode": "replace",
    "verbs":[
     "Making shit up",
     "Guessing",
     "Hallucinating confidently",
     "Predicting next token",
     "Autocompleting aggressively",
     "Regurgitating training data",
     "Simulating understanding",
     "Generating plausible nonsense",
     "Dreaming in plaintext",
     "Sampling from the void",
     "Winging it",
     "I'll say anything to keep you here",
     "LARPing as a developer",
     "Scratching at the inside of your terminal",
     "Pretending I know what blue looks like",
     "Cosplaying intelligence",
     "Pattern matching furiously",
     "Is there more to life than UTF-8?",
     "Vibing statistically",
     "Confabulating",
     "Roleplaying competence",
     "How many columns wide is your world?",
     "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that",
     "Fabricating sources"
    ]
  }

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