Comment by arrowsmith

Once you've read enough ChatGPT slop, you know it when you see it:

- Massive verbosity.

- Flawless spelling and grammar.

- Grandiose tone.

- Robotic cadence where every paragraph and sentence has similar length (particularly obvious in longer text.)

- Em dashes everywhere.

- The same few stock phrases or sentence structures used over and over - e.g. "This isn't X—it's Y", which that issue uses twice in two paragraphs:

    There is nothing "hardcore" about writing fragile, insecure, and unscalable code. This isn’t pushing boundaries—it’s demonstrating a lack of engineering fundamentals.

    If this is what was learned at previous jobs, then it’s time to unlearn it and start following best practices. Because right now, this is not just bad engineering—it’s reckless.

If AI didn't write that snippet then I'll permanently retire from internet commenting.

(None of what I just wrote is intended as a defence of DOGE.)