[zahlman]

Seems fine to me.

> Then we [perform the act of] cut[ting]: [thereby,] the fourteen date formatters become (i.e. are replaced with) one,

[capiki]

It's the AI-generated writing that seems off (I'm assuming that's what OP meant)

[tensegrist]

essentially, yes

it's not about the prose quality, but about the fact that it seems like the service of deleting ai-generated code is also going to be ai-generated, or at least the service is being advertised via ai-generated text, which is…funny