i've picked up a weird typing quirk (no, not the homestuck thing).

so LLMs have brought the em-dash into the public consciousness since they love to use it so much. i've read so many articles discussing what an em-dash even is because of this.

now that i've actually (sort of) learned what an em-dash is and how it works, i've ended up using it when i write. i have a weird aversion to non-ascii typography such as smart quotes, so i use two dash characters instead of the actual em-dash character. this means i write (e.g.) code comments like id has no parent -- its parent is therefore the root node. i also use less semicolons than i used to.

so, weirdly enough, LLMs have influenced my typing -- not through my (infrequent) use of them, but by the articles written about the way they write. thankfully, the pseudo-em-dash is the only thing i've picked so far.