sloptells / headers on a social post

active · formatting · first recorded 2026-07-02 · registers: linkedin

A markdown title on a LinkedIn post — “# One Year In: What Nobody Tells You” — as if a 150-word post needed an H1. Half of the punchy-prompt posts in our eval set open this way.

examples

# I Killed Our Daily Standups—And Team Velocity Went Up

evidence

occurrences per 10k words, measured 2026-08-17 (run #10, 3 current + 3 vintage models)

current AIvintage AI (2024/25)humans (matched)canon (great pre-AI prose)
pooled0.620.300.000.00
hn0.000.00
cooking0.000.00
parenting0.000.00
linkedin0.00

history

rundateAI /10kvs humans
#22026-07-020.98only in AI
#32026-07-020.88only in AI
#42026-07-061.04only in AI
#52026-07-131.19only in AI
#62026-07-201.08only in AI
#72026-07-270.93only in AI
#82026-08-030.77only in AI
#92026-08-100.72only in AI
#102026-08-170.62only in AI

detector

regex: ^#{1,3}

sources

← all tells