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| ▲ | thechao 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I felt personally attacked when LLMs came out: I'm an avid user of "—", bullets, numbered lists, and the word "delve". It's been a miserable couple of years. |
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| ▲ | flkiwi 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| LLMs write like that because people wrote like that. Enough, unfortunately for my remaining love of humanity, to cause the LLMs to adopt the quirk. |
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| ▲ | hnlmorg 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I know. That’s my point. People talk about LLM writing style like it’s a unique butterfly and humans don’t write that they. But we do. Which is why LLMs do too. |
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| ▲ | mikepurvis 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Many many years ago I wrote a book for Apress, and the style guide for that instilled in me a lot of practices that now make my writing feel LLM-ish to some readers: - Use bulleted lists, but always introduce and conclude a list with prose; a list can't immediately follow a heading or end a section. - Use a mix of long and short sentences; in long sentences with parentheticals, use a mix of commas, parens, semicolons, and em dashes. - With multiple continuous blocks of prose that aren't naturally broken up by an illustration or heading, start a paragraph with an inline bold statement to help anchor the reader. |
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| ▲ | sublinear 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I still use bullets extensively. You can easily tell when a human writes them when they are trees instead of lists. |
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| ▲ | hnlmorg 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I don't think even that is a reliable indicator because I'm currently reviewing an LLM generated bullet tree right now. |
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| ▲ | wyre 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| For sure, but I don't think I'm going to give Vercel benefit of the doubt that they aren't writing their copy with an LLM. |
