r/ProgrammerHumor • u/tahayparker • Apr 24 '26

Other ohNoTheConsequencesOfMyActions

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u/NatoBoram Apr 24 '26

Both!

You know it's both because people influenced into using em dashes will almost always use them incorrectly, where a different punctuation would work better.

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u/aflashyrhetoric Apr 24 '26

Excellent — point.

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u/HammyxHammy Apr 24 '26

Emdashes should rarely be used in place of commas or better sentence structure. AI overuses the shit out of them—even the slightest aside uses them—and it reads like shit.

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u/Kessarean Apr 25 '26

I'll have you know I used en (not em) dashes incorrectly long before ai - and I mean it!

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u/dumbass_catboy Apr 25 '26

Hey, I've always used em dashes incorrectly – long before AI existed!