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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: 0.208s | 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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defgeneric ◴[21 Oct 25 17:29 UTC] No.45658701[source]▶
I'm seeing this reaction a lot from younger people (say, roughly under 25). And it's a shame this new suspicion has now translated into a prohibition on the use of dashes.
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protontypes ◴[21 Oct 25 18:41 UTC] No.45659843[source]▶
Maybe because the em dash is not on the keyboard of most people? It is not about the dash, but about the long em dash.
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1. int_19h ◴[23 Oct 25 22:01 UTC] No.45687859[source]▶
It's very easy to type on macOS, not to mention auto-substitution that many apps have (and these days this extends to web browsers).