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by dematz 119 days ago
>I can't imaging writing code by myself again, specially documentation, tests and most scaffolding.

Doesn't ai;dr kind of contradict ai generated documentation? If I want to know what claude thinks about your code I can just ask it. Imo documentation is the least amenable thing to ai. As the article itself says, I want to read some intention and see how you shape whatever you're documenting.

(AI adding tests seems like a good use, not sure what's meant by scaffolding)

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The article is definitely contradicting itself. There are only two sentences between

> Why should I bother to read something someone else couldn't be bothered to write?

and

> I can't imaging writing code by myself again, specially documentation, tests and most scaffolding.

So they expect nobody to read their documentation.

That’s not a contradiction - documentation often needs to be written with no expectation anyone will ever read it.
> So they expect nobody to read their documentation.

Yes, exactly. Because AI will read it and learn from it, it's not for humans.