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Re: LLM Writing Tropes.md

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Post by crabmusket »

bitwize wrote: post #9

You know how no one ever wrote their own software and then generative AI came along and suddenly we could have app meals home-cooked by barefoot developers? (The use of such cottagecore terminology for a process that requires being an ongoing client of a hundred-gigabuck, planet-burning megacorporation rubs me in many wrong ways.) If AI finally gets rid of the thing that drove me nuts for years : "leverage" as a verb…

> (The use of such cottagecore terminology for a process that requires being an ongoing client of a hundred-gigabuck, planet-burning megacorporation rubs me in many wrong ways.)

I hadn't noticed this - great point. To be fair the "home cooked meal" metaphor comes from 2020, predating genAI coding[1]. But even then, CPUs themselves are so normalised that we just kind of... forget how vertiginously complex the entire supply chain is.

[1] https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/

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Jordan-117 wrote: post #10

Wikipedia also has an exhaustive guide, though it's not fun finding tropes you use yourself (I'm very guilty of the false range "from X to Y" thing): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing Another one that seems impossible for LLMs to avoid: breaking article into a title and a subtitle, separated by a colon. Even if you explicitly tell it not to, it'll do it.

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Re: LLM Writing Tropes.md

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Post by newAccount2025 »

Great list. Invented Concept Labels is the one I think I get most frustrated by. When exploring new areas, I’ll read its paragraphs of acronyms and weird words and think I just don’t know some term of art, and as soon as I ask for a definition it’s like, “I just made that up, that’s not a formal term, blah blah blah.”

Re: LLM Writing Tropes.md

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Post by wisemang »

joshvm wrote: post #11

No mention of Claude/ChatGPT's favourite new word genuine and friends? They also like using real and honest when giving advice. Far as I can tell this is a new-ish change. > Honestly? We should address X first. It's a genuine issue and we've found a real bug here. Honorable mention: "no ". I guess this helps reassure adherence to the prompt? I see that one all the time in vibe coded PRs.

I’ve noticed the honestly thing for sure.

But I feel like I’ve noticed an uptick in people using the adverb “genuinely” in what I genuinely believe to not be AI generated comments, articles, etc. Maybe it’s just me, I got similar vibes about the word efficacy a few years ago, before the ascent of GenAI (but after the pandemic — again, maybe just me).

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Post by thih9 »

joshvm wrote: post #11

No mention of Claude/ChatGPT's favourite new word genuine and friends? They also like using real and honest when giving advice. Far as I can tell this is a new-ish change. > Honestly? We should address X first. It's a genuine issue and we've found a real bug here. Honorable mention: "no ". I guess this helps reassure adherence to the prompt? I see that one all the time in vibe coded PRs.

> no

I see this so often. Sometimes it’s just “no react hooks”, other times it gets literal and extra unnatural, like: “here’s , no unnecessary long text explanation”. Perhaps we’re past AGI and this is passive aggressiveness ;)

Re: LLM Writing Tropes.md

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Post by verdverm »

NewsaHackO wrote: post #29
netsec_burn wrote: post #27

Another trope: longer README.md's than anyone would make, or want.

Yes, to me this is a huge tell. Especially when it goes into detail about pros and cons (using a table) on the most superficial points.

and all those emoji... sometimes to the point they are on most lines and commit messages.

Re: LLM Writing Tropes.md

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Post by smusamashah »

o_____________o wrote: post #45
Jordan-117 wrote: post #10

Wikipedia also has an exhaustive guide, though it's not fun finding tropes you use yourself (I'm very guilty of the false range "from X to Y" thing): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing Another one that seems impossible for LLMs to avoid: breaking article into a title and a subtitle, separated by a colon. Even if you explicitly tell it not to, it'll do it.

https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/src/branch/main/prompts/LL...

The very first heading in this doc was a giveaway even after your de LLM process 'The Em-Dash Pivot: "Not X—but Y"'. This title is so much AI like. I think it's the "The" in title which is putting me off and coming off as assigning unnecessary importance which is mentioned in the wiki.

Re: LLM Writing Tropes.md

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Post by iFire »

xpe wrote: post #50

> ... But prose? That's from human to human, it's sacred and meant for other people. Using AI for that is deceitful. I understand the sentiment. Meaning I think I understand some of the underlying frustration. But I don't care for the tone or the framing or the depth of analysis (for there isn't much there; I've seen the "if you didn't write it, why should I read it" cliché before *, and it ain't the only argument in…

Agree.

I don't write for sentimentality. I write so that my code designs can survive longer than my work on it.

No documentation is worse than deceit.

The emptiness and vastness of the void (entropy) is much deeper than humans or machines.

Google search says this philosphy is called https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/content-externalism/

Re: LLM Writing Tropes.md

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Post by matusp »

I tried using Gemini for some light historical research. It could not stop using tech metaphors. Lords were the CEOs of their time, pope was the most important influencer, vassal uprisings were job interviews, etc. The metaphors were almost comically useless and imprecise, and Gemini kept using them even when I explicitly asked it to not do that.
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