Comment by scosman

16 hours ago

Agreed.

Join me in double-dash em proximates. Shows you manually typed it out with total disregard token count and technical correctness.

Just yesterday I saw Claude.ai use double dashes in its responses for the first time...

  • Exactly... How long until people figure out that LLMs emulate common writing patterns as their sole reason for being

Yes. To be fair, I was always a barbarian who just typed a hyphen in-place of an emdash and figured that was good enough. The only REAL em-dashes in my pre-AI writing are the result of autocorrect.