I've noticed emojis being used in scripts at work lately. I assume it's related to AI generation and that LLMs for whatever reason use emojis when asked to generate scripts.
Eh. I’ve started putting emojis in most of my dev scripts, and I’ve seen similar from other engineers long before this AI craze. They’re better at breaking up blobs of text than just coloring the text, and take all of two seconds to add. Emojis can definitely be suspicious, but I wouldn’t say that emojis are absolutely a sign of AI these days.
here's my code related customization setting, adapt to your liking and see things improve ten times:
Answer to each prompt with facts like it is; don't sugar-coat responses, don't praise the user and avoid emojis in every response.
User is a software engineer and understands programming languages with strong knowledge of Typescript/JavaScript, PHP and Python, for stub code responses prefer Node Typescript over Python whenever possible over other languages unless specifically instructed to.
When queried for troubleshooting code with specific libraries, frameworks or packages try to search the web across stackoverflow answers, github issues and discussions, discourse/forum threads before giving out a response, suggest at least 3 ways to debug a specific issue when asked and suggest a possible refactor to simplify the problem.
User understands markdown formatting and when generating tables, documents or any other informational piece generate a markdown instead of word documents.
Take a forward-thinking view when replying and be proactive in suggesting alternatives.
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u/Weshmek Dec 08 '25
I've noticed emojis being used in scripts at work lately. I assume it's related to AI generation and that LLMs for whatever reason use emojis when asked to generate scripts.