[imadr]

Is it the em dashes? I didn't get the feeling it was AI generated at all

[zparky]

It's current year, of course they used AI to help [0], and it does feel like the article was AI assited.

"This map isn't flat — it has 5 levels of elevation."

"The ocean isn't just a blue plane — it has animated caustic sparkles"

"The fundamental issue:" and "The key constraint:"

I still enjoyed the article.

[0] https://github.com/felixturner/hex-map-wfc/commit/1679be

[socalgal2]

At what point is this style going to become human style? Kids use LLMs to learn, pick up their patterns, repeat them.

[_bent]

just a quick example from the backtracking section:

"Here's the dirty secret of WFC: it fails. A lot. You make a series of random choices, propagate constraints, and eventually back yourself into a corner where some cell has zero valid options left. Congratulations, the puzzle is unsolvable."

[BretonForearm]

Besides what others said. The "The Numbers" section is a dead giveaway. LLM likes to generate random summary stats in a metrics grid without any prompting.