Someone hard-coded em-dash style into Claude’s config file

blelbach · x · 2026-07-21

A meme about enforcing em-dash style in an AI setup: the screenshot shows a terminal command writing a rule into /.claude/CLAUDE.md that says to always use American spacing for em dashes.

The joke is that people are turning a punctuation preference into an explicit agent instruction, as if style guidelines now need to be hard-coded for the model.

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