[progbits]

In last month or two I noticed semicolons getting used where previously it would be em-dash, in both cases excessively and often incorrectly.

I assumed some of my coworkers added "replace all em-dashes with semicolons" into their CLAUDE.md as a really crappy attempt at hiding their inability to write a single sentence without assistance.

[tux3]

Come on now, you can't also take away my semicolons. What am I supposed to do now; I barely have any punctuation left.

[dag100]

Embrace the inner Cormac McCarthy in you and abandon punctuation altogether

[progbits]

Not taking it away.

I hate those arguments "it has emdash therefore AI", of course humans also write that way.

But poor and excessive usage of them is a pretty strong red flag, also together with other tells.