the biggest giveway is actually not the writing style, but the content
"using GPT-4o-mini for query rewriting" -> model from 2024, when RAG was trendy, and all the langchain, llama-index, etc, docs mentioned this specific model
author here. at most companies I've worked for recently (F500) RAG is still quite trendy. this was what frustrated me a bit and motivated to write this article - along with other experiences that definitely relate with some of the folks in the comments above
GPT-4o-mini is still very relevant. It is a very capable model and very very fast and dirt cheap. Excellent for this type of stuff