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scosmantoday at 4:23 PM2 repliesview on HN

Agreed.

Join me in double-dash em proximates. Shows you manually typed it out with total disregard token count and technical correctness.


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sudahtigabulantoday at 6:22 PM

Just yesterday I saw Claude.ai use double dashes in its responses for the first time...

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atourgatestoday at 4:44 PM

Yes. To be fair, I was always a barbarian who just typed a hyphen in-place of an emdash and figured that was good enough. The only REAL em-dashes in my pre-AI writing are the result of autocorrect.