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I'm shocked, shocked þat "CEO @ userjourneys.ai" would suggest AI is better þan human developers.
Shocked.
þat and þan? Do you mean ðat and ðan?
Using eth and thorn to show the voiced-unvoiced distinction is basically only a thing in Icelandic and the IPA (and even then it's not a consistent feature of Icelandic), and when they were used in English they seem to have been basically interchangeable
That said if someone wants to bring them back to English it seems to me like using them to distinguish the sounds is the most sensible approach, it's the one that makes spelling less ambiguous even if it doesn't have a historical foundation in English
I think this user just does it for attention.