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The Programmer Identity Crisis

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270 points imasl42 | 1 comments | 21 Oct 25 16:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | source
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protontypes ◴[21 Oct 25 17:08 UTC] No.45658345[source]▶
Whenever I see an em dash (—), I suspect the entire text was written by an AI.
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1. commandlinefan ◴[21 Oct 25 18:54 UTC] No.45660003[source]▶
I published a book once (way before LLMs came along). My publisher insisted that I replace parenthetical inserts with em dashes. Humans do use them.