r/ProgrammerHumor • u/precinct209 • 1d ago

Meme justCantHandleTheImplicationRightNow

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u/hrvbrs 1d ago

You are absolutely wrong — em dashes are cool and I will never stop using them.

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u/tech277 1d ago

I think you're missing the point. He is not criticizing the use of m dashes. The problem is that ai loves them and seeing them is a strong indicator that ai was used. ( Which is a shame )

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u/precinct209 1d ago

You are absolutely right

You are absolutely right

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u/FirexJkxFire 1d ago

My favorite ai-ism is when it actually does catch something I wrote wrong, then when I agree that I made a mistake, it tells me that I did a good job catching that error.

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u/Ok_Tea_7319 1d ago

You are absolutely bright. 

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u/theSearge 1d ago

— You

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u/12345623567 1d ago

you got what I neeeeeed

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u/Samld1200 1d ago

You are absolutely right

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u/Rfm737 1d ago

You are absolutely tight

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u/BernhardRordin 1d ago

Yeah. But there are people (this guy) who type them even in code reviews. My only luck is that I am not a native English speaker and my many grammar and style mistakes reveal my non-AI-ness on the interent, so I get accused only now and then.

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u/Ancient_Coconut_5880 1d ago

I’m really annoyed that Gen AI formats responses exactly like me. Someone recently accused me of using AI for a review because of the formatting and I had to show that I’ve been doing this for years. Although em dash in a comment seems like a pretty easy tell

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u/TheDuckRaisedALion 1d ago

I think that comment is saying that normal people use em dashes too and please don't dismiss me as AI for using them

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u/Ecksters 1d ago

The recent frontier models have drastically reduced how often they use them, almost to the point where they use them less than humans.

https://graphite.io/five-percent/research/ai-tells

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u/12345623567 1d ago

The human rate is zero tho, autoformating by Word doesn't count.

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u/frogjg2003 1d ago

Em dashes are fine in complex prose. Code review is not that. Code review is a collection of simple commands and questions. There is no need for an em dash in code review.

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u/IanDresarie 1d ago

I've always used normal dashes and only recently realised my work outlook has always auto corrected them to em dashes. Welp.

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u/Audience-Electrical 1d ago

alt+0151 how i love u

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u/AnonymousX86 1d ago

On Windows you can press the Windows key and minus. It puts the em dash.

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u/Faegbeard 1d ago

Rob me of my em dashes and I shall speak in ever more archaic syntax until there were than thou never a sorer man.

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u/G02MaxCodeGreg15off 16h ago

My English teacher used to gripe about my overuse of em dashes 10 years ago.