[watermarkhu]

Yeah every same human would use m-dashes in their sentences — it just makes sense

[jorisw]

Em-dashes predate LLMs and are legitimate punctuation. Are we going to ban/dismiss any pattern now that emerges from these things?

[throw1234567891]

I use em-dashes. Just get over the fucking thing. Wow, you're so money supermarket. And if you're going to use one to drive the point—use it correctly because you come across as an ignorant.

[Cthulhu_]

Use triple emdashes to look extra sane⸻like this.

[tcballard]

Regardless - the emdash predated LLMs … but that’s going way off topic!

[croon]

> Regardless - the emdash predated LLMs … but that’s going way off topic!

I'm too OCD to not point out this time it was a minus.

[slopinthebag]

It's not the em dashes, it's the sentence flow and the incorrect use of terms like "load-bearing".

Also this user created an even newer account at the same time as posting this to drive engagement. /tinfoil-hat off

[LoganDark]

What? Em-dash is option-shift-hyphen on Mac... it's easy to use them. I used to use them. I even used to grab hair-spaces to place on either side of them, as one should (though that doesn't work on HN).

[Cthulhu_]

Yeah but a regular - is just a single button press, why would I learn this keyboard combination if I never learned how / when to use emdashes in the first place?