This is so confused, it's making my head hurt. What I think the author wanted was to remove ASCII emoticons, because there is no such thing as ASCII emoji. Ano

This is so confused, it's making my head hurt. What I think the author wanted was to remove ASCII emoticons, because there is no such thing as ASCII emoji. Another confusing thing is that good 'ole shruggie (which in this form I'd classify as an emoticon) is not pure ASCII, and relies on Unicode codepoint 0x30c4 for the smiley face, and a couple more besides. The author did such a poor job of describing what they wanted, it's no surprise the generated program is nonsense. If anything, I'm now less convinced that non-technical people will be able to use conversational AI tools to usurp my hard-earned societal role as a technologist.