Poor poor those typography-savvy people who did set a special keyboard in order to type "proper" dashes. I know you are there, I know your pain.

As someone who has the key combos Alt-0150 and Alt-0151 saved in muscle memory I feel offended by being compared to a machine.

I call it stylometric---obfuscation!

https://news.ycombinator.com/classic is every day more compelling.

10x more likely to use EM-dashes -- built in Rust?

I would like to formally petition that the tech world at large replace "em-dash" with "clank" in all correspondence

I think they will remake the Japanese horror film Matango but instead of fungi, it will be those that use EM dashes to survive.

Makes me wonder the ratio between LLM commenters versus those aligning with an LLMs syntax.

Not sure which is scarier

I've had to deliberately strip em-dashes from my writing, even though sometimes they're genuinely the right punctuation for expressing a complex thought. The reason? I use AI to polish my professional writing (including this one), and em-dashes are the first thing I remove during review because leaving them in makes it look like I just hit "send" on an AI response without reading it.

The irony is that in tech, almost everyone is using AI to improve their writing at this point. And often it does make things clearer and more concise. But we've created this weird social norm where the output needs to look like it wasn't touched by AI, even when everyone knows it was. So we all spend time manually roughing up perfectly good text to maintain the illusion of authenticity.