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Why? The dashes?
by profunctor 6mo ago
Why? The dashes?
- thrtythreeforty 6mo agoThere are lots of subtle LLM-ism sentence structures that you can perceive, sort of subconsciously. Spend any amount of time with Claude and you'll unconsciously start to copy them. This essay has several: Sentence structures, heading phrasing, and yes, dashes. I expect people know to start steering LLMs away from em dashes at this point though.
- sp1nningaway 6mo agoThe shear volume of writing, the false rigor and vestigial artifacts (preface, interactive charts, MORE filler hidden behind accordion dropdowns) are a tell. I would be more annoyed but I'm fascinated by this kind of false productivity that AI is encouraging. I don't agree with the conclusion anyway, as AI is CURRENTLY providing wealth to me with side projects that wouldn't have been possible to take on 2 years ago.
- Kubuxu 6mo agoYeah, after two paragraphs, my eyes started skimming it due to low signal-to-noise ratio.