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by user- 40 days ago
crazy number of : and ; thats all i gotta say about the recent wave of ai writing
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First they came for the em-dashes, and I did not speak out, because I never used em-dashes...
I've started using ; in opencode because it seems more natural to string a couple of commands together without some awkward grammatical thing. Similar to the caveman prompt.
Em-dashes are too wide! I frequently forget what I've just read before I reach its other end. "--" in ASCII or en-dash + whitespace are superior separator symbols.