[Novosell]

This is so ai-written it is hard to take serious. You figured out the trick to making tall skinny things stable? Weight or a wide base?

[wespiser_2018]

I did not write this with AI.

The "trick" was finding a weight that would work, which needed to be purchased for cheap and installed easily.

[randlet]

I assumed it was AI too

"All of this happened over text—not an organized workflow system, but good enough to handle a weekend’s worth of work, one weekend at a time. For a moment, the business worked. In reality, this was the easy part."

And

"The logo was the Boston Celtics logo. The problem? It’s not a minimal, modern logo; it’s a detailed, hand-drawn image from 1946."

have a pretty AI like cadence.

edit: No shade to OP....I'm glad it's not AI, but I'm sad my default is assuming AI now :/

[ssl-3]

People have been writing comparative statements with punctuation for as long as we've had things to compare and written language to punctuate.

Your bot detector is broken.

[wespiser_2018]

Thanks for the feedback!

[BeetleB]

Please don't change your writing style just because random humbugs on the Internet associate it with an LLM.

[lozenge]

What is writing if not a way to be perceived by others. Ideally not perceived as an LLM!

I saw it too and OP has likely picked up these idioms from the sheer amount of AI-assisted or generated writing out there.

[BeetleB]

> I saw it too and OP has likely picked up these idioms from the sheer amount of AI-assisted or generated writing out there.

I think that's a convenient post hoc justification. I could as easily say the LLM wrote it that way because that's how people actually write.

[keybored]

This is the home of the writing luminaries that can’t imagine outputting em-dashes by hand.

[alvah]

where is the em-dash key on your keyboard? Yes, I know you can use a shortcut. 99.9% of people don't.

[ButlerianJihad]

It may be a compliment on cogent points combined with impeccable grammar and spelling

[Novosell]

That's not what you wrote in the post though, and an actual human adult would never call that a "trick".