OP here, thanks for the feedback. Just curious - anything specific? I spent long time getting to some sort of framework for my writing and being called LLM is my constant struggle.

PS: I do use LLM for polish, etc.

I think jdnier nailed the phrases that most stuck out for me. I also agree that I would rather hear your own voice, even if you think it's less polished.

The problem is when reading something that has those LLM tells, I immediately wonder if any of the information has been vetted, and I wonder just how much LLM-fluff I'm going to have to wade through to get the information.

I can see you didn't just let the LLM do everything here and your own experience has guided and shaped the article. It is a good article overall, but the LLM-isms create a nagging sense of doubt about the quality which is hard to shake.

For me it's the rythm. It's a list of chapters, each with a list of subchapters, plenty of bulleted lists, and paragraphs of close to equal size with sentences of close to equal size. Everything is trying to be an element with an impact. Each sentence, each paragraph, each entry in a list, each list, each subchapter... feels like I'm being hit with an impact drill. This! Then this! Now this! Conclusion! But there's more!

It's not a human way to think, talk or write.

Do all the writing yourself, use LLMs for research and as an editor only. When using an LLM as an editor never copy its verbatim suggestion into your prose.

Tells like "load-bearing" and "real", for example.

"the heap's simplicity is load-bearing: once..."

"It's a real thing"

"It's a real trade-off"

"The design buys real things"

"it comes down to a real design choice"

"That's a real critique"

Really, don't use LLM for polish; that's what wrecks it imho. People write idiosyncratically and that's a good thing. That's your voice.

I would say ignore them. It was well written an informative. Some people have just gone insane and see LLMs everywhere.

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