jaseg on Nostr: Recent LLM iterations have picked up the habit of overusing the “it’s not X ...
Recent LLM iterations have picked up the habit of overusing the “it’s not X it’s Y” contrasting sentence pattern so much that I find myself avoiding using it in my own writing even in places where it would be appropriate stylistically or help with readability.
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