"It's young, and it shows"

"Holds up"

"not a toy, but not a sprawling project either, and ideally.."

"And that’s the trap"

ctrl F "real" -> 6 usages

ctrl F "genuine" -> 4 usages

It kind of says so at the bottom:

> Disclaimer: styling and error handling throughout this article were cleaned up with the help of AI.

The implication seems to be "light editing", but the LLM styling really comes through, so I guess that tracks.

Not OP, but I think the leading and trailing paragraphs were mostly human-written (and nice to read), but the memory leak example cases had a very different flavor of prose and code comments that smelled very Claude-y to me

It's unfortunate, but to come across as genuine now I think you have to actively avoid AI-isms.

In this case it feels AI generated with human polish, or vice versa. A couple tells are "One caveat worth stating up front..." and of course, "...the shape of the language itself...".

> So anything that has em dashes is now considered LLM generated?

Is that what they said? If that's not what they said, why are you putting words in their mouth in an attempt to weaken their statement into some completely ridiculous stupid strawman that is obviously not actually what they said?

"And honestly"