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"We believe computers should work for people, and dream of a future where computing, like cooking or word processing, is available to everyone."

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"with live updating — all for free. LLMs ar..." also see a fair few of these long dashes (18x) which is either a tell tail of you've used ChatGPT to generate the text or you've started writing like the AI.

I havn't thought about it that hard yet but i don't really like consuming AI generated content at all as soon as i see signs of it part of my brain turns off. And no slight to the creator, I have as much interest in writing this kind of copy as any developer would i'd imagine.

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> "with live updating — all for free. LLMs ar..." also see a fair few of these long dashes (18x) which is either a tell tail of you've used ChatGPT to generate the text or you've started writing like the AI.

It's also my IRL writing style for the last 10-15 years :P

That said:

> I havn't thought about it that hard yet but i don't really like consuming AI generated content at all as soon as i see signs of it part of my brain turns off.

Likewise.

At least, when someone else did the prompting — I do like what LLMs can output, but when LLM answers are sufficient I prefer to cut out the middle-man and ask the LLM directly myself.

If you read up on hyphens VS en-dashes VS em-dashes, using em-dashes is actually the correct usage — as a separator — in the case you cited.

I disagree with your conclusion of this being a telltale sign of being AI generated.

To type an em dash, an important punctuation mark, press compose and then hyphen thrice. — ←like this. Shift-option-hyphen on Macs, I think.

Scrappy co-creator here. As an old-school Mac user (from the days of desktop publishing) I do know the difference between hyphen and en-dash and em-dash :)

We used AI sparsely for wordsmithing and definitely not for generating the text. Believe me, putting it together was a lot of work (Pontus did the heavy lifting).

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