I once worked on a project doing firmware that a lot of people have likely used (printer firmware for a big-name company). One of the more trafficked functions was something like 1500 lines of “if-elseif-elseif…” with something like 13 or 14 different cases.
It did end up getting refactored to something polymorphic and based on a configuration file to cut out any unnecessary steps, but it was like that for a while before I got there, and was like that for most of the year that I was part of the project.

Me, still waiting for them make a mario kart as good as double dash

I’ve never been called out as AI for using them; but if I ever am, I have the strategy of knowing the alt code for them (0151). I even know the shortcut in word to insert one — pressing alt-X with your cursor at the end of “2014”. I also have a vscode macro set up that is just an emdash, just in case I’m in a situation where there’s not a way I know to insert one.