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Comment by marcingas

8 days ago

Thanks for feedback. Here's a pre-AI-slopped README https://github.com/nooga/let-go/blob/98c2e2ebf38519bceb4f799...

You can also refer to the HN post itself - it says why I think it's cool.

apologies if i was blunt - readme sloppage is a particular annoyance of mine that is quickly becoming common. i'm not against vibecoding, far from it. but a readme is a part of a project that humans immediately touch - seeing it littered with em-dashes signals carelessness.

i appreciate you taking my feedback with grace.

  • I would like to point out, again, that em dashes are very much used by humans that run macOS or iOS — like in this case.

    • Also Linux, where it's easy to configure a compose key to mnemonically type all the Unicode goodies you can think of.

      Android's software keyboards generally make it easy, too.

Why did you feel the need to slopify your README? The original version read much, much better.

I genuinely don’t understand why people do this.