Re:Using LLMs at Oxide
by bcantrill on Sunday December 07, 2025 @11:22AM
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The em-dash alone is not an LLM-reveal -- it's how the em-dash is used to pace a sentence. In my experience, with an LLM, em-dashes are used to even pacing; for humans (and certainly, for me!), the em-dash is used to deliberately change pacing -- to introduce a pause (like that one!), followed by a bit of a (metaphorical) punch. The goal is to have you read the sentence as I would read it -- and I think if you have heard me speak, you can hear me in my writing.
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Re:Using LLMs at Oxide
by thundergolfer on Sunday December 07, 2025 @02:13PM
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Too much has been written about em-dashes and LLMs, but I'd highly recommend If it cites em dashes as proof, it came from a tool from Scott Smitelli if you haven't read it.
It's a brilliant skewering of the 'em dash means LLM' heuristic as a broken trick.