Definitely AI written, and it has an annoying bubbly vibe, but the content was interesting nevertheless.
I think those who don't see it as AI just don't read AI text several hours per day, like some of us.
can you point us towards the specific tells you're seeing in the article. I find the writing maybe LLM-cheerfull yes, but don't see classic phrase patterns.
I would not call it bubbly; more like 1960s-noir-pulp-fiction-rugged-detective style. Anyway, could be fixed, to some extent with proper prompting.
> Claude Code and I spent months on the cat-and-mouse.
To me this a tell of AI - it should read "cat-and-mouse game."
I think AI sees the cat and mouse as individual objects joined together with a hyphen rather than knowing it's a type of game.