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by pvtmert 33 days ago
Although I agree with the sentiment in the article, it smells very LLM~y. Especially the sections and punchlines. Such as: `That is not a rounding error. That is a line item that needs its own budget code.`
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> That is not a rounding error. That is a line item that needs its own budget code.

Claude produces this kind of prose SO much. It's pretty annoying. I don't notice it happening on Gemini for the same prompts.

I was working at Amazon until recently. Number of internal documents (PRFAQs, 1-pagers, etc) having these sort of proses boomed since 2024.

Punchy titles are also part of the marketing speak. Before Claude or ChatGPT, it would be a delicious read, understanding how they come up with the initial idea for an internal system. Since then, most of reads like "It's not just X, ..." every other paragraph, making it dull...

It's called "constrastive negation", and both GPT and Claude tend towards it.
>The Math Your Finance Team Has Not Done >Pull out the napkin. This matters.

Nobody writes like this.

> it smells very LLM~y

Every Time I See This Header

Followed By Another Header

I just know it's been LLMed xd also if you click around this page it's pretty obvious

Who is it written by anyway? The author's name is not given in the article
Pangram flags this as 100% AI generated with high confidence.
We've established that Pangram is bullshit. But it definitely has some strong LLM vibes.
Who is "we"? Lol