Claudish

Translate between plain English and deliberately over-engineered “Claudish” with two tiny ProgramAsWeights functions.

Try the live demo

Python

pip install programasweights --extra-index-url https://pypi.programasweights.com/simple/

import programasweights as paw

to_claudish = paw.function("ca9d5165b6c8e6615529")
to_english = paw.function("e469f61ccab2699fbd51")

print(to_claudish("Only owners can merge."))
print(to_english("The honest shape is asymmetric: the data is correct; the format is hard to read. Correctness landed; legibility did not."))

The programs download once and then run locally. Pass no max_tokens; PAW stops naturally at EOS.

For a small command-line wrapper:

python translate.py to-claudish "The release can go out after Alice approves the final report."
python translate.py to-english "Here’s where I’d hold the line: do not launch until the tests pass. Green is the gate, not a suggestion."

Specs

• specs/english-to-claudish.md
• specs/claudish-to-english.md

Copy either spec into your own PAW program or adapt it for another model or workflow.

Public programs

• English → Claudish
• Claudish → English

Inspired by gvzdv/claudish-to-english. This is an unofficial parody project and is not affiliated with Anthropic.

Citation

The translation functions are described in Compile by Training (§6.3). If you use this demo in research, please cite that paper and Program-as-Weights for the underlying fuzzy-function programming model.

Compile by Training: Turning Natural-Language Specifications into Local Neural Functions

EMNLP 2026 System Demonstrations · Preprint

@inproceedings{deng-etal-2026-compile,
  title = {{Compile by Training: Turning Natural-Language Specifications into Local Neural Functions}},
  author = {Deng, Yuntian and Nie, Pengyu and Shieber, Stuart},
  editor = {Agrawal, Sweta and Abad, Alberto},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations},
  month = oct,
  year = {2026},
  address = {Budapest, Hungary},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-demos.78/},
  doi = {10.18653/2026.emnlp-demos.78},
  pages = {830--839},
  ISBN = {979-8-89176-461-3}
}

Program-as-Weights: A Programming Paradigm for Fuzzy Functions

NeurIPS 2026 · Preprint

@inproceedings{zhang2026programasweights,
  title = {{Program-as-Weights: A Programming Paradigm for Fuzzy Functions}},
  author = {Zhang, Wentao and Hotsko, Liliana and Kim, Woojeong and Nie, Pengyu and Shieber, Stuart and Deng, Yuntian},
  booktitle = {The Fortieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.02512}
}