[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.

[BeetleB]

Many editing tools support double or triple hyphen that convert automatically to em dashes. On Android it's trivial to write an em dash (easier than say the percent symbol).

I even have a plug-in that converts some hyphens to em dashes on my blog.

Rendering judgment on someone who published something on their own site without knowing their stack reflects more on you than him.

[alvah]

Not the point, and no it doesn't. 99% of anything published since ChatGPT launched, that contains em-dashes, is suspected AI slop. Very few writers will make the extra effort to manually insert an em-dash - in fact hardly any writers even know how to or where it should be used.

I am merely stating how people now view em-dashes, not how I wish things were.

[keybored]

Level 4 modifier + some key with my custom setup. On Linux in my locale and with an AltGr key you can use Shift+AltGr+hyphen.

You thought I wouldn’t have a reply to that?

[alvah]

I thought you would miss the point. Looks like you did.

[ButlerianJihad]

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