1. I've said this in real life

2. I've said this multiple times in real life because fuck FAANG

3. that's a new one for me

4. Every colleague I've worked with has used this in real life, for decades

5. Also a new one

So... sorry what were we talking about?

That barely anyone with an organic brain would use any those phrases as a heading, much less all of them.

This article isn't particularly egregious but AI does come up with really cringy headings. Most often "the <irrelevant noun>" over and over.

The current frontier models also have a bizarre tendency to prepend said headings with weirdly irrelevant emoji. I really wonder where they picked that up.

It was a very prominent trend in frontend and hip JavaScript repositories on GitHub before AI

Maybe AI overuses this style but yeah, this is a style which existed long before AI. It's what a magazine writer trying to be engaging would write like, since what, the 90s?

Let it be, let it be. There are surely more worthwhile things to get annoyed at.

I'm not the one who originally complained above, but personally I've simply got more things to read than time to read them so I do my best to ignore the sloppy writing, be it by a 90s magazine writer or most often by Claude. It can be, but on someone else's screen.

Hmm... I think this could be a case of the organic brain soaking up LLM-isms by the way as it is using these tools intensively. As much as I don't like robot writing, this all seems overly paranoid to me.

The point is not that no one says these IRL, the point is that LLMs always tend to fall back on this kind of verbiage - they got it from us, they aren’t doing anything new or special, they’re just predisposed towards a very particular kind of voice / word choice in prose.

Do no try to look at the individual examples, look at the overall style of headings. It's about style, people say such things, they are not unique.

I will echo the flagged comment in spirit:

Those are wild headings that read like an op-ed on a site covered in ads. I've said some of those things irl, and "relief pitcher" is a thing, and in solution those phrases are fine. As section headings it's wild imo