Is it just me, or the article structure and subtitles feel very AI?
I don't understand where or how AI picked up that habit, because it's self evidently terrible. It makes it clear how low signal AI based writing is. The writing is like the music in shitty blockbusters; engineered to make you feel, rather than to actually structure the content or provide meaningful sections.
Compare this writeup to the Pixter writeup, where sections feel natural and not "scripted" like this.
The LLM pass (unsurprisingly) made it worse.
For example:
The results were conclusive: 100% pass rate, showing Reno recovered cleanly after the loss phase, and revealing that this is a CUBIC-related bug.
Look, I’m reading a description of a Linux kernel network congestion bug. I don’t need the hand-holding.
So instead of:
> President Jackson said "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.".
They'll do something like:
> President Jackson noted that "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet". The head of state also remarked that "consectetur adipiscing elit" while emphasizing that "sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua".
> "Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation", categorically proclaimed the former business tycoon. He concluded that "ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat".
I've seen this way before LLMs and how much it's used varies a bit from language to language. But it's so formulaic, I can't help but imagine some brain-dead moron sitting in front of the keyboard, trying to make 5 paragraphs from 2 sentences someone said without adding anything else.