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Comment by cmeacham98

5 days ago

I also now see that you're using em dashes in your replies - are even the HN comments AI generated???

Some colleagues use LLMs to translate their messages to English. Same can ve applied here

Humans also use em dashes — like that. My browser for one automatically creates them on HN if you correctly type a space, two hyphens then another space. Maybe the dude just has good grammar.

Everyone please just stop with the em dash hysteria. You just tried to use one yourself — apparently you just don’t know how to type it.

  • We'll find out in an hour, but I bet openai trained em-dashes out of gpt-5 and that will confuse a lot of people. At least you'll be able to write the way you want to...

  • I use emdashes like this-- see the difference

    • Yes I do — and that’s not an em dash, it’s two hyphens. You’re not using a manual typewriter, you have Unicode. You don’t make an exclamation point from an apostrophe and a period, do you?