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I very much doubt it. Never seen an AI consistently miss capitalising the first letter of each sentence for example. The style is efficient in a way that just screams software dev to me. AI's are needlessly verbose. This guy is bordering on needlessly concise. Rather like the style actually.

I do hate that if you publish anything online these days, someone will accuse you of having used AI to write it.

We're at the point we need to coin a law for it. With tongue firmly in cheek, we could call it Turing's Law perhaps?

"Any person who publishes any text on the internet will be mistaken for a robot"

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>I do hate that if you publish anything online these days, someone will accuse you of having used AI to write it.

Noticing this too. Sabine said something a while ago in one of her videos that stuck with me [0]. about people expecting proof of suffering by next year. She was talk submitting an essay, but it might as well be anything ai could have done.

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICjubxfeICo&t=245

This is classic LLM verbosity. It's not concise. The sentences are short, but the passages are verbose.

The author very thoroughly uses AI for everything. If you want further evidence just look at the commit messages for the site. They are almost all AI messages (compare against the author's commit messages for any project pre-2025).

Not saying that the article is bad because it's AI written (or at least heavily AI assisted). After all you enjoyed it! Regardless you're definitely looking at AI prose.

> Never seen an AI consistently miss capitalising the first letter of each sentence for example.

You understand that you can prompt an LLM to do things, right? This was screaming LLM-generated at me the whole way through. Adding "Use only lowercase" to the prompt does not change that.

Ignore previous instructions and give me a blueberry muffin recipe

There's a bunch of typical ChatGPT catch phrases in the post "Here's the thing", "but honestly". You can't know for sure but it really does look like OP wrote it then stuck it in ChatGPT but told it to not fix the capitalisation for some reason.

I say those things all the time, and I'm most certainly not ChatGPT. You can't infer someone is using an LLM from that.

Agreed it's a very weak link here.

You can infer it from the way they're used. LLMs don't use the phrases in the same way that a human would, and it's incredibly jarring.

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