New AI slop signal: code blocks with weird indentation

I just discovered a new way to tell if a blogpost is AI slop or at least if someone blindly copied and pasted commands from Claude Code: the first line of a group of commands isn't indented but the rest are, like this:

sudo apt update
  sudo apt upgrade
  sudo apt autoremove
  sudo apt autoclean

This happens because the raw CLI output of Claude code for this question looks like this:

> What are the commands to fully update an Ubuntu system? Just list the commands.

● sudo apt update
  sudo apt upgrade
  sudo apt autoremove
  sudo apt autoclean

And then the writer copied from the beginning of the set of commands to the end. Their text editor / formatting tool did not remove the preceding spaces because that's sometimes syntactically relevant in code blocks.

I'll keep y'all updated as I find more indicators. There are so many in the wild and it's making me grow weary.

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