u/DryEagle

The department as a whole has had some middling results last year. So management are taking some 'big' steps. We've had an expensive consultant in and out all year and now he's left a bunch of recommendations for improvement. So now we're currently having weekly 'walk-throughs' which are basically "informal" lesson obs, by head of dept + head of quality. 20-30 minutes in lesson. This isn't being written up formally as an official observation, we just get a meeting with informal feedback and then wider dept feedback in dept meetings; but of course it's still a lot to deal with, especially at such a high stress time of year. I understand it's within their perogative to be doing this as part of dept improvement plan, but it still feels like it's a bit much. Anything to be done? Just to be clear they're doing this for the entire department, not any individual teachers specifically.

I am constantly seeing LLMs outputting sentences where they give counterexamples before describing the thing.

"Here's a thing. Not X, not Y, it's Z." as a generic example.

I'm now seeing this "writing quirk" pop up more and more all over the place. Was it just a common human writing style that I never noticed before LLMs shoved it into everything, or is it an easily noticable marker of AI written text which I'm just somehow paying attention to now?

I just find it a very annoying way to describe something and it's everywhere... but why / where from? If it wasn't prevalent in pre-LLM text to this obvious extent, why's it suddenly their main thing?