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‘Landed’ and ‘honest’ are also words it seems to overuse.


Yes, this and "belt-and-suspenders" are the ones that I notice the most. I also have non-native English speaking coworkers who have started using these terms/phrases recently, which makes me think that they're outsourcing all their writing.


Claude is obsessed with making things land. More than once I've reminded it that it's not a pilot.


It’s a common metaphor for merging a branch to the trunk. Probably because multiple in-flight development branches create a sort of air traffic control problem.




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