I wish people would disclose when they used an LLM to write for them. This comes across as so clearly written by ChatGPT (I don't know if it is) that it seriously devalues any potential insights contained within. At least if the author was honest, I'd be able to judge their writing accordingly.
The distinction matters:”
What is it with this pattern of phrases that screams LLM to me? Whenever I come upon this pattern I stop reading further.
Claude tics appear to include the following:
- It's not just X, it's Y
- *The problem* / *The Solution*
- Think of it as a Z that Ws.
- Not X, not Y. Just Z.
- Bold the first sentence of each element of a list. If it's writing markdown, it does this constantly
- Unicode arrows → Claude
- Every subsection has a summary. Every document also has a summary. It's "what I'm going to tell you; What I'm telling you; What I just told you", in fractal form, adhered to very rigidly. Maybe it overindexed on Five Paragraph Essays
Oh no!! Yet another thing I've been doing for the past decade which will now make me look like a robot. I thought my penchant for em-dashes was bad enough.
I have a keyboard shortcut to make the arrows. I think they look nice.
And secondly they like to use more nouns for things, in my experience.
Of course all this is just what I observe currently and could well become different for better and worse in future versions.
I gave up on the first non-ironic 'You are absolutely correct' comment... What is even real...