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Re:Ticket-Driven Development: The Fastest Way to Go Nowhere by twoodfin on Thursday June 26, 2025 @08:12AM (#44386641)
Frequent bullet lists. Bolded key phrases. Varying sentence length for emphasis. “Not X, Y” phrasing structure. Pervasive second-person perspective.

I mean it’s possible somebody just writes like that, but I wouldn’t bet money on it.

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Re:Ticket-Driven Development: The Fastest Way to Go Nowhere by delta_p_delta_x on Thursday June 26, 2025 @08:17AM (#44386677)
The cadence and sentence structure is very obvious; GPT-based LLMs somehow just tend to be very haughty by default. There's the very slogan-esque 'X? Verb-in-past-tense. Y? Another-verb-in-past-tense' sort of sentences that're a dead give-away that something is written by an LLM. Also weird similes and constructions that make grammatical and even contextual sense, but don't really exist in English.
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