I scarcely saw “space emdash space” until LLMs were popularized. As an avid emdash user myself—and I’ve been doing it (perhaps improperly) for the last 25 years—the spaces are unnecessary and look bad.
I love using styling, bullets, first-letter capitalizing titles, and being as organized as I can be. I want to think of the reader and how I can make it easier for them, and now all the things that make it easier for them are reasons they have not to trust me.
Yeah. I can post a picture that I know was created years ago and peeps will convince themselves it’s AI. What a horrible invention.
It’s worse with text. Don’t post anything remotely structured — not even if the context warrants it.
In summary, don’t even summarise.
If you add emoji you’re already dead
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And don’t dare to use “it is not X, it is Y” structures.
I don’t use AI to write comments, I’m that bad at communicating.
Honestly, good. You don’t need to tell the reader what it isn’t. Waste of our time.
I scarcely saw “space emdash space” until LLMs were popularized. As an avid emdash user myself—and I’ve been doing it (perhaps improperly) for the last 25 years—the spaces are unnecessary and look bad.
I feel weird with them, my native language usually uses “;” instead.
Ah, I see you are a Chicago kind of person—I’m with you on that.
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I love using styling, bullets, first-letter capitalizing titles, and being as organized as I can be. I want to think of the reader and how I can make it easier for them, and now all the things that make it easier for them are reasons they have not to trust me.
This sucks.
That’s a new one. We were taught that was the correct way when I was in school.
More society destroying tech…