[oceliker]

Unrelated, but:

> The dominant mechanism, and the one no prompt instruction can prevent:

Writing like this is a stronger "AI-written" (specifically Claude) signal than em-dashes to me at this point. The LLM just delays committing to an answer by extending the preamble as much as possible. Is this just me?

[sterlind]

Smoking gun! You've hit the nail on the head, and the case is stronger than you think.