Comment by customguy
1 hour ago
I vouched for your comment not because I think this is or isn't helpful advice (I have no idea), but just to thank you for the concept of "narrating the shape of one's own answer". It's something that often annoys me, though I'm sure I often do it myself, but I never thought about what it is, exactly, I just filed it under the generic category of bloat.
It's genuinely useful in speech, which is why a lot of people do it. A listener can't scroll back, and it buys you a second to think. In writing both of those things go away and it becomes pure bloat.
I wonder if these emerged from models being trained on a lot of transcribed talks and videos?