alt Hacker NewsBy itself it's not a tell but combined with all else it's hard to pass by. Author's other article from 2025 has less than half the dashes and it's the same length
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NoMoreNicksLeft • today at 5:35 PM
So we're actually witnessing in real time that he was slowly learning where to use emdashes? That's sort of hilarious.
How would the rise of dash usage in LLMs have arised if a significant portion of non-LLM writers weren't inclined to take them up and make them more common? The only explanation I see is that they are common in training materials we don't as commonly consume as website visitors.