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by hu3 205 days ago
It's AI assitance. If you search for "e.g." the page lights up like a christmas tree. There's 90 appearances if "e.g."

I have never seen this frequency before.

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Or maybe fully AI-generated. There's many factual errors in the article too.
Damn is that a new signal? I use "e.g." all the time. Now I can't use the em dash or that I suppose or risk being called out for ai gen content
I use it too but 106 "e.g."s in a single page? That's how many there are now. Not to mention it's full of inconsistencies and being edited multiple times.

I think the author might have left an LLM agent in a loop fixing it whenever HN points out an error or finds something new to add on the internet.