[tom_]

I was struck by the "Magnitude: High | Applicability: High" bit. Who writes like this? More importantly, who reads like this? The V4 doc (which I have yet to read, but I did a text search) has 64 occurences of this sort of phrasing; not actually all that many, given that there's 293 pages, but enough to be interesting. I wonder if this extra stuff is there to make LLMs pay particular attention.

[bdash]

Intel's software optimization guides have similar annotations on many of their guidelines, and have done since long before LLMs were a thing. As a reader it's useful to know how impactful a given recommendation is and how generally applicable it is without having to read the more detailed explanations.

[tom_]

Ahh, interesting, thanks. (I read the reference manuals but typically ignore the rest... I don't need to write this stuff, just read it!) I've seen people recommend creating docs to be LLM-friendly and I was wondering if this was an instance of that.