[HN Gopher] LLM Writing Tropes.md
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       LLM Writing Tropes.md
        
       Author : walterbell
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2026-03-07 21:08 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | mvkel wrote:
       | Weirdly, LLMs seem to break with these instructions. They simply
       | ignore them, almost as if the pretraining/RL weights are so
       | heavy, no amount of system prompting can override it
        
         | RandomWorker wrote:
         | It's a beauty. We can easily detect the issues with Youtubers
         | that generate scripts from this tool. I've noticed these
         | tropes, after 30 seconds, remove, block, and do not recommend
         | any further. I hope to train the algorithm to detect AI scripts
         | and stop recommending me those videos. It's honestly turned me
         | off from YouTube so much, or I find myself going to my
         | "subscribed" tab and going to content creators that still
         | believe in the craft.
        
       | chuckadams wrote:
       | [delayed]
        
       | carleverett wrote:
       | "The "It's not X -- it's Y" pattern, often with an em dash. The
       | single most commonly identified AI writing tell. Man I f*cking
       | hate it. AI uses this to create false profundity by framing
       | everything as a surprising reframe. One in a piece can be
       | effective; ten in a blog post is a genuine insult to the reader.
       | Before LLMs, people simply did not write like this at scale."
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       | This one hit home... the first time I ever saw Claude do it I
       | really liked it. It's amazing how quickly it became the #1 most
       | aggravating thing it does just through sheer overuse. And of
       | course now it's rampant in writing everywhere.
        
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