I'm not being condescending at all and your comment makes perfect sense in isolation. It's stupid to call out a single construction (or punctuation mark) as you're interpreting me as having done. I'm just assuming you're smart enough to see a pattern when you see it repeated often enough; so sorry, I guess?

So is there in my history.

Same with some replies in my inbox. I see a lot of semicolons, "not X but Y" formats, OpenAI purple prose, stuff I might suspect as slop in specific contexts, but I'm not pointing fingers over it unless it seems like they are actually trying to spam something. There's no way I can tell if an LLM was used with reasonable certainty.

Perhaps I'm unreasonably agitated by this. But I don't like the idea of a "purity test" for writing style; the Tech Bros that are forcing that paranoia on us don't deserve one ounce of our attention.