More and more people are using GPT for editing. I admit to sometimes using AI to help me too. To be fair, I'm not sure what to think of this particular slick style quite yet.
Bad news for all my programming guides that use em dashes properly... ;D Luckily I have a Git history on them that predates LLMs, for whatever that's worth.
Ah, a lot of people do use LLMs for editing. And when I read this I can just hear GPT-4.x's style and tone of voice in my head.
None of the following are smoking guns, but together... well, either it's GPT or it's https://xkcd.com/810/ .
* Bullet point lists
* emdash
* extensive use of bold
* sentence fragments
* "Here's the good news:"
* juxtaposition over emdash: "This transition is happening — but we’re not being ignored anymore."
* Bullet points that simply MUST have a conclusion " The entire workflow? Gone." , " not just for me, but for every user who deserves to choose how they compute.", "And they shouldn’t have to." , "But we have to start over."
* "I hope it’s done right — not half-baked, not bolted on."
* "We lost an ecosystem."
* "That has to change. / And it starts with every compositor agreeing on what “accessible” actually means. "
etc....
Maybe it's
A) A human who is a very skilled writer with a particular style
B) GPT4.x
but my best guess is
C) Both: Human did the rough draft, then had GPT4 edit it into shape.
OFF but I liked most of these points ~3 years ago. Bullet points for "what you will learn" and "what you've learnt" for example.
Now articles structured this way make me sad. I am not sure if it is acquired distaste, just tiring, or recent articles are indeed worse; either way I am not very happy about them.