Its got this ... cadence:

> Same earnings call. Same margin targets. Same quarterly pressure. The sense that you were choosing between competitors was a fiction that VF Corp had no incentive to correct.

> That threat disciplined every material choice, every stitch count, every zipper spec. Once they all report to the same parent, the discipline evaporates. Nobody needs to outbuild anybody. The only pressure left is the one coming from above

> None of this shows up on the shelf. The colors are right. The logos are crisp. The product photography is excellent. You discover what you actually bought three months in, when the stitching pulls apart at every stress point.

Its thing X. Its thing Y. Its thing Z. And now I'm going to tell you about thing Q in a longer sentence.

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furyofantares 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

More generally it's pure info dump. Everything is lists of things, all given the same weight, even if not literal bullet point lists or numbered lists.

Some other common things (not present in this article) that are dressed up lists are short titled paragraphs, and sequences of sentences that go "blah blah blah: blah blah blah."

Very little opinion added anywhere, but the punchy writing style where everything is given an overdone monotone overimportance masks it a little.

Pure infodump is not terrible for some things but I'd much rather it be less heavily processed by the LLM, and be upfront about the fact that it's a dressed up infodump with an LLM involved.

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Someone 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don’t see why that would be proof of being written by a LLM.

It quite well can be (and I think it is) stylistic writing, hammering the message home by repetition of blows.

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roywiggins 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It could be a stylistic choice, except it's rapidly become an extremely popular one for some reason. It's also the default Claude style. So, take what you will from that. Either someone is writing exactly like Claude on purpose, or they just asked Claude to write something, but either way I'm entirely oversaturated on it. At this point I don't think "Claude", I just start skimming and then close the tab.

	▲	furyofantares 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Even if a human were to try to write in this style intentionally I think they are very likely to express a few opinions, maybe an anecdote, maybe express their motivation in some way, and add a little more variation to tone.

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josephg 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Its not proof, but its certainly a smoking gun. Even when humans use that literary device, we don't typically do it every other paragraph. It feels like a pretty safe bet that an LLM wrote most of this.

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echoangle 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How would you ever prove that it’s by an LLM? There’s no text an LLM can produce that I couldn’t theoretically type myself, too. But the style is strong evidence.

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antonvs 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> It quite well can be (and I think it is) stylistic writing

I wish we could bet money on this. This is an LLM and I'd win that bet.

The ability to recognize the style comes from working with them.

It's quite possible the author wrote an outline or rough draft of the article and then asked the LLM to clean it up. But the final result has LLM tells all over.

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bakugo 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"Stylistic writing" that just happens to perfectly match Claude's current default codeslopped output style, and the exact same style as the majority of posts that have made it onto the front page of HN in recent months. Just endless streams of short punchy sentences that are really just glorified bulleted lists with no substance to them.

Let's quit the gaslighting and acknowledge that no human actually writes this way consistently across every paragraph, unless they're intentionally trying to write badly.

	▲	LinuxAmbulance 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		"It's the smell, if there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it. I can taste LLM stink and every time I do, I fear that I've somehow been infected by it."

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RattlesnakeJake 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah, all of that felt a lot like Claude's writing style.

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AlexandrB 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The irony is that this is a perfect example of the thing the article complains about. Even writing is now of a lower quality thanks to LLMs. In this case you're paying with your time instead of money for a lower quality product than you'd get 10 years ago.