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Re:The Junior Hiring Crisis by throwaway2037 on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @07:05PM (#46128653)
What is wrong with emojis in comments? I see no issue with it. Do I do it myself? No. Would I pushback if a young person added emojis to comments? No. I am looking at "the content, not the colour".
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Re:The Junior Hiring Crisis by chihuahua on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @07:26PM (#46128800)
I think GP may be thinking that emojis in PR comments (plus the other red flags they mentioned) are the result of copy/paste from LLM output, which might imply that the person who does mindless copy/pasting is not adding anything and could be replaced by LLM automation.
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Re:The Junior Hiring Crisis by venturecruelty on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @07:27PM (#46128807)
The point is that heavy emoji use means AI was likely used to produce a changeset, not that emojis are inherently bad.
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Re:The Junior Hiring Crisis by icedchai on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @08:27PM (#46129199)
The emojis are not a problem themselves. They're a warning sign: slop is (probably) present, look deeper.
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