Option to disable humorous verb choice

[vemv]

After usage for a quite a few months (basically since the public release), I've kept seeing these Tinkering / Contemplating / Mastering etc verb choices.

They stopped being funny to me long ago and they're a nuisance that steals precious focus from me.

While using Claude Code, I tend to be very focused (I'm not vibe coding!), so gratuitous distractions only make my work harder. They really do irritate me for at least one second each time, which isn't a good emotional state to be in.

I'd suggest to instead having a simple, fixed verb, or an animation.

Other than that, thanks for the fantastic product.

Cheers - V

[AtomicRaven]

yes and it's even worse now, and not funny. I'm not here for 'jokes', so please add option to remove entirely

[echolocked]

I'm enjoying verbs and find them playful. But I agree that it's better to add an option to turn that off, in case in one day I get bored of them

[PGTBoos]

can you give some examples of that i've never seen it, perhaps it depends on your writing style?, serious talks results in serious talks back it only mimics ourselves i think. I'm quite curious about llm behaviours, did you ask it think it cannt possibly know so humor was a polite way to excuse for unclarity?

[vemv]

As seen in the related issues (#6548, #8714), my problem refers to verbs such as tomfoolering, Befuddling, etc seen in the loading animation.

[jakubbortlik]

The annoying "thinking verbs" can be configured with the tweakcc tool (see this comment for a similar customization). This requires a local npm install though, it doesn't work with the "native install" of Claude Code.

I've successfully configured it to just show "Generating..." all the time.