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Oh no, you said "landed"! It's dug into our brains!

I hate that I have to change the way I write to avoid AI-isms. I loved using "load bearing" to describe weird code that you think you can delete but is actually holding everything together.

Now people think I'm just parroting what Claude said. It sucks. I want my catch phrases back, I guess this is how em dash users felt

As a former em-dash enjoyer, I indeed feel your pain.

I'm with you an that one. RIP em-dash.

RIP. I had frequently used ALT + 0151.

Same here for em-dashes

I will continue to use em-dashes as I always have.

When someone uses the presence of em-dash as the only signal for AI-generated then they are simply lazy.

I feel like a lot of these have been LinkedIn-isms or PR-isms long before they have been AI-isms so not much is lost.

I used to use em-dashes for explanatory clauses--like this one, for example--when using commas would make the sentence difficult to parse due to other nearby commas.

They're only a LinkedIn-ism when used to create an unduly dramatic juxtaposition for an otherwise mundane idea. But now they set off people's AI radar when used for any reason at all.

Perhaps I am biased because I find the use of em-dashes without spaces (as is common in English typesetting) to be inherently ugly so I'm not too unhappy to see their use discouraged.

Same here. I was always more of an en-dash enjoyer, and used that back in academia since it's just a double-dash in Latex.

You could say it landed cleanly.

Good instinct. Fair challenge. This corrects my framing. It makes your point sharp. This is a significant finding. Positively confirmed. That settles it, and it flips the picture. Honest verdict - this is not small. Let me wire it in.

There's got to be a Weird Al song like this coming soon.

Bless the lord that it's not been presented to us yet, because you just know that it exists already.

Behold, The Masterpiece :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251221

This is one of my favorite things to have ever read on HN

Oh. Oh no.

Smoking gun!

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