I get sad when I read comments like these, because I feel like HN is the only forum left where real discussion between real people providing real thoughts are happening. I think that is changing unfortunately. The em-dashes and the strange ticks immediate triggers my anti-bodies and devalues it, whether that is appropriate or not.
Not the writing style, but the fact that the em-dashes and strange ticks make it indistinguishable from something AI-generated. At least take the time to replace them with something you can produce easily on a physical keyboard.
Edit:
Well, actually - this kind of writing style does feel quite AI-ish:
> It really makes sense, and the best part — customers love it
The em dashes didn't strike me as LLM because they had spaces on either side, something I don't typically see in LLM outputs as much. But the quote you highlighted is pretty much dead-on for LLM "speak" I must admit. In the end though, I think this is human written.
It might be a Windows vs. MacOS/Linux thing, but regardless - it's becoming a similar kind of pattern that I'm subconsciously learning to ignore/filter out, similar to banner blindness and ads/editorials.
