[data-ottawa]

I don’t understand where the AI love of emojis comes from. I’ve never seen them in a professional codebase outside of basic logging.

I assume it comes from the myriad tutorial content on medium or something.

gpt-oss is the most egregious emoji user: it uses emoji for numbers in section headings in code, which was clearly a stylistic choice finetuned into the model and it fights you on removing them.

I’ve noticed Claude likes to add them to log messages and prints and with 4.5 seems to have ramped up their use in chat.

[stefan_]

It's bizarre because its not so long ago that trying to print an emoji would just mess up your terminal, if your compiler didn't already choke on it.

[marckrn]

I'm pretty sure it's caused by RLHF :wink: