I’m occasionally accused of using LLMs to write the content on my blog. I don’t do that, and I don’t think my writing has much of an LLM smell to it… with one notable exception:

# Finally, do em dashes
s = s.replace(' - ', u'\u2014')

That code to add em dashes to my posts dates back to at least 2015 (https://github.com/simonw/simonwillisonblog/blob/e6d0327b37debdf820b5cfef4fb7d09a9624cea9/blog/templatetags/entry_tags.py#L145-L146) when I ported my blog from an older version of Django (in a long-lost Mercurial repository) and started afresh on GitHub.

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