I mostly assuredly do — and have done my whole life. I deliberately use en-dashes in number ranges (1–10) too.

For real though, I have a code text editor on my phone that if I have an idea and I have no PC I can code it out.

Love me some en dashes.

I do! Although more the en dash than the em. Its also how dialogue is done in Spanish books (replacing the quotation marks)

Oh, what fresh hell is this?

Except for Isaac Asimov. His works are littered with the em dash. Which makes me feel like his writing was the base training data for most llms or something.

He even doom-wrote his own post – No one uses em dashes in the real world.

If you look at old microwave ads they claimed the microwave would replace the oven and stove and do everything in the kitchen for you faster and easier.

In my lifetime I've been told electric slow cookers, instapots, and now airfriers would do everything for me and they all ended up being just another tool.

Marketing is a hell of drug.

I'll wait.

crickets hum to each-other in the distance

Even worse, at least script kiddies had to find their scripts somewhere

Well, he does make stuff up, but it’s not malicious.

Mecha Hitler™ begs to differ

Literacy and programming are not equivalent. Nobody needs to learn how to code unless it's required for work. Even if AI made people able to read/write code, it would not be much of a net positive to society as there's no indication that the demand for programmers will increase as well. If anything, AI agents/chatbots would be able to replace some categories of software (like search engines), and would thus decrease the amount of software that needs to be written overall.

I bet if you went back a few decades to the pre-internet era and showed someone wikipedia, they'd come to similar lofty conclusions about how everyone will be able to become an expert in anything. Not to discount Wikipedia's value today, but we aren't living in a post-ignorance society where everyone knows everything.

If you're going to join the AI circlejerk, at least make sure you don't have erectile dysfunction.

similarly, I was going to mention a receipt processing program that my boss wrote that allegedly works, but he's been programming robots and writing PLC for a decade

Vibe coding doesn't mean that you can write code you dumb fuck. That's like saying that somebody can read and write because they can use voice typing and text to speech on their phone.

Disclaimer: The word "Perfect" in the name Perfect Burgers is a trademark and does not imply actual perfection.

10 years down the line, more people will know some amount of coding (it's in school curriculum nowadays).

If the AI bubble doesn't break, 600 years down the line, there will be lesser coder and people who make simple applications the traditional way nowadays, will be looked at, in a similar way one now looks at those bootstrapping new instructions using assembly, into compilers.

This prediction will most probably go wrong too though. If the AI bubble doesn't break soon enough, our civilisation bubble might end up breaking and we'd end up at 5% people being able to read and write.

I can write g-code, does that also count?

Modern day script kiddies.

Well, he does make stuff up, but it’s not malicious. He’s just read 100 letters like this before, and also has a good idea of what you are hoping the letter says. Don’t worry though, if you call him out on it, he will apologize and try again.

Yeah it's more like asking the village wise man to read a letter to you, but he's also mostly illiterate and just makes stuff up.

This is one of the more absurd things I’ve read today

I almost replied with a simple Csv parser I wrote for work until I saw "who doesn't know how to code otherwise". I've known how to code for almost a decade now.

I wouldn't count vibe coding as writing code.

We just need 2 trillion more and another 20 coal power plants brought online to achieve Perfect Burgers™