Comment by metaltyphoon
21 hours ago
So anything that has em dashes is now considered LLM generated? What made you think this is generated?
21 hours ago
So anything that has em dashes is now considered LLM generated? What made you think this is generated?
"It's young, and it shows"
"Holds up"
"not a toy, but not a sprawling project either, and ideally.."
"And that’s the trap"
ctrl F "real" -> 6 usages
ctrl F "genuine" -> 4 usages
A number of "<assertion>: <followup>" patterns too which is pretty common of at least Claude.
"Here are the cases that hit hardest, each compared against how Rust handles the same shape:"
"Rust: this exact shape can’t compile."
Are these obvious signs of AI generation?
Each one makes me update my estimate slightly in favour of AI. Also, pangram agrees.
In aggregate, yes.
And even if LLMs didn’t exist (or had different idiosyncrasies), the article would still be exhibiting a repeatedly weird and stilted writing style.
Yes.
It kind of says so at the bottom:
> Disclaimer: styling and error handling throughout this article were cleaned up with the help of AI.
The implication seems to be "light editing", but the LLM styling really comes through, so I guess that tracks.
Not OP, but I think the leading and trailing paragraphs were mostly human-written (and nice to read), but the memory leak example cases had a very different flavor of prose and code comments that smelled very Claude-y to me
After going over that section again I can see it now.
It's unfortunate, but to come across as genuine now I think you have to actively avoid AI-isms.
In this case it feels AI generated with human polish, or vice versa. A couple tells are "One caveat worth stating up front..." and of course, "...the shape of the language itself...".
> It's unfortunate, but to come across as genuine now I think you have to actively avoid AI-isms.
I actually think this might be a good thing? I'm way more aware of cliches and filler in my writing these days, and it almost always reads better when I just remove them and plainly say the thing.
> So anything that has em dashes is now considered LLM generated?
Is that what they said? If that's not what they said, why are you putting words in their mouth in an attempt to weaken their statement into some completely ridiculous stupid strawman that is obviously not actually what they said?
That’s the first thing others point to being LLM-generated. If you see, right after the phrase you quote, there is a question as to what else OP thinks is LLM-generated. I didn’t put words into anyones mouth
> [em-dashes are] the first thing others point to being LLM-generated
this isn't true and hasn't been true for a while
> I didn’t put words into anyones mouth
literally read your first sentence again, and notice the word "others"
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"And honestly"