It's current year, of course they used AI to help [0], and it does feel like the article was AI assited.
"This map isn't flat — it has 5 levels of elevation."
"The ocean isn't just a blue plane — it has animated caustic sparkles"
"The fundamental issue:" and "The key constraint:"
I still enjoyed the article.
[0] https://github.com/felixturner/hex-map-wfc/commit/1679be
At what point is this style going to become human style? Kids use LLMs to learn, pick up their patterns, repeat them.