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Positive (tryhard) signaling: having a well designed email footer with all your contact info

Neutral signaling: no footer at all

-1 signaling: sent from my iPhone

-2 signaling: sent from my Samsung AI Family Hub 4-Door Flex Fridge

I think "Sent from my iPhone" is now less of a status symbol than it is an excuse for short replies / bad grammar.

Status symbol?

I just assumed that was from people who aren't technologically literate enough to remove the default signature. It never occurred to me it might be intentional.

There needs to be a new sig like "Written by Claude" or something. I'd rather somebody just openly admits it.

At least for now, there remain lots of signals that are clear to those with sufficient exposure; from the piece linked in the Oxide LLM doc that was recently discussed here:

"... to anyone who has seen even a modicum of LLM-generated content (a rapidly expanding demographic!), the LLM tells are impossible to ignore. Bluntly, your intellectual fly is open: lots of people notice — but no one is pointing it out."

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/12/05/your-intellectual-fl...

*Please forgive any typos