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by freedomben 309 days ago
I also think it makes a difference that an AI agent can read the docs very quickly, and don't typically care about formatting and other presentation-level things that humans have to care about, whereas a human isn't going to read it all, and may read very little of it. I've been at places where we invested substantial time documenting things, only to have it be glanced at maybe a couple of times before becoming outdated.

The idea of writing docs for AI (but not humans) does feel a little reflexively gross, but as Spock would say, it does seem logical