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by e63f67dd-065b 988 days ago
You're onto something here, I feel; it's not that it seems LLM-ish, as LLMs are certainly capable of generating very high quality writing with good prompting. It's more a mixture of low-quality/effort writing and a lack of style that makes it seem like a writing factory churned it out.

Clicking on a few random paragraphs:

> A significant portion of Deno's codebase is crafted using Rust, a highly popular and secure programming language. Rust's robustness adds an extra layer of reliability to Deno's architecture. Various essential elements of Deno, such as the CLI (Command Line Interface), module graph management, runtime execution, operational functionalities, and core mechanisms, heavily utilize Rust.

> The subsequent phase in executing code involves establishing permissions. Permissions stand out as a distinctive feature within the Deno runtime system. Deno provides an exceptional and safeguarded environment for running programs. This exclusive safeguarding is achieved through the mechanism of permissions

> We have repeatedly traversed these steps multiple times within the recent preceding sections. We begin by considering the root module and initiating its loading. Following this, we load all associated dependencies. Afterward, both the root module and its dependencies are brought into existence. This phase involves the instantiation of the root module along with its dependent modules

It's -- lacking soul, is the best way I can put it. The writing feels very mechanical, with one sentence at a time, slowly trodding along, like the many high school English essays that I've read too many of. There's no variation in sentence length, no voice, no soul. It's the writing equivalent of a presentation that's just reading individual bullet points from Powerpoint.