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But it's bad writing, as GP points out. The second paragraph is particularly confusing—its central metaphor is clumsy (in my experience LLMs struggle with metaphors).

That said, maybe it's an artifact of being machine-translated from the original Russian.

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Let me make the author's case as they aren't here to defend themselves. This is the paragraph,

     > I still don't know why I remember it in such detail. I used to forget what I'd had for dinner the night before. And now I remember the whole morning minute by minute, as if someone had laid it out on a table and labeled every piece. Apparently I have a lot of free time now.

They set expectations with, "I still don't know why I remember it in such detail"

Then they set up the comparator to the past, "I used to forget what I'd had for dinner the night before" which is actually doing double work, because it also means that they were so busy that they used to forget what they had dinner.

This creates the character assumption that the person was / is a workaholic.

    > And now I remember the whole morning minute by minute

Heavily hinting that the person has been made redundant, because they've gone from forgetting what they had for dinner (as they'd munch along) to remembering their morning by the minute instead of being stressed by work.

    > as if someone had laid it out on a table and labeled every piece

Need for mechanical precision. This person is most likely autistic / nerdy.

    > Apparently I have a lot of free time now.

And now the final blow. It's because they're now effectively unemployed. Why? AI. They have a job on paper, but it's uncertain / doesn't truly exist.

It's incredibly concise and well written story telling. I haven't seen LLMs do punchy writing like this since GPT-4o days.

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