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I wondered myself, as it seemed ok, but I went through the poster's history as I was interested.

Firstly, they have a remarkably consistent style. Everything is like this. There's not very many examples to choose from, so that's maybe also to be expected, and perhaps it is just also their personality.

I worry, as I've been accused myself, that there is perhaps something in the style the accuser dislikes or finds off-putting and nowadays the suspected cause will be LLM.

Secondly, they have "extensive experience" in various areas of technology, that don't seem to be especially related to each other. I too have extensive experience in several areas of technology but there is something of a connector between them.

Perhaps it is just because of their high level of technical expertise that they have managed to move between these areas and gain this extensive experience. And because of the high level of technical expertise and their interest in only saying very technical things all the time, their communications seem less varying and human, and more LLM.





It's the verbose writing style. I can see why you would be accused as well.

FWIW the people accusing the person you're replying to would be clearly wrong as this sentence alone directly rules it out being straight LLM output:

> and nowadays the suspected cause will be LLM.

It's very unlike the original person, who is a bot indeed.


I know. The problem is that extreme verbose writing styles get associated with LLMs it's in the same vain as em-dashes.

going to my last page of comments at this time

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=bryanrasmussen

I have 4 comments of more than 3 sentences and 3 comments of 2 or 3 sentences and 5 comments of 1 sentence.

The sentences were generally pretty short.


Verbosity isn't just about the length of your comments. It's about using more words than necessary. Sometimes a 'yes' is enough instead of two sentences. It just seems that you like to express your thought process in words. It's not a critique on your writing style it's just a trait that your writing sharea with LLMs.



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