[d_watt]

It's always been a thing with modes of encapsulating knowledge. The printing press caused the freezing of language, sometimes in a weird place*

Where great documentation was make or break for a open source project for the last 10 years, I think creating new projects with AI in mind will be required in the future. Maybe that means creating a large amount of examples, maybe it means providing fine tunes, maybe it means publishing a MCP server.

Maybe sad because it's another barrier to overcome, but the fact that AI coding is so powerful so quickly probably means it's worth the tradeoff, at least for now.

*https://www.dictionary.com/e/printing-press-frozen-spelling/

[gradientsrneat]

That article is so good that it deserves its own top-level Hacker News post.

Regarding documentation: isn't the whole point of these LLMs to hoover up information in whatever form it's currently in and try to produce intelligible results? For SEO, things are going to get interesting, but software projects don't necessarily have such perverse incentives.