Also, when are people going to get tired of assuming that em dashes automatically mean something was written by an LLM? At this stage, this is such a tired observation that it's unproductive to repeat.
> As my AI assistant gemini-3-flash-preview put it so blindly today:
So I can excuse someone for jumping to the conclusion the rest of it was LLM assisted too.
I read it and while I didn't think it was LLM writing (until the literal LLM writing), it's an incredibly grating style of writing that would earn ridicule before LLMs.
Obnoxiously building up straw men in section headers then knocking them down with "Reality:" is just not a way to have a useful conversation about a topic. Yuck.
The actually useful tips are here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing
Good writing uses novel combinations of tools (vocabulary, rhetoric, metaphor) to communicate novel ideas. Bad writing is a cargo cult of those tools.