[brookst]

Classic perfect/good.

The choice is not usually “have humans write amazing top notch documentation, or use an LLM”.

The choice is usually “have sparse, incomplete, out-of-date documentation… or use an LLM”.

[mort96]

And my claim is that the latter is better.

[brookst]

Cool, so just ignore documentation then. Problem solved for everyone.

[mort96]

I dont see how that solves anything.

[brookst]

* Projects can focus on code first, and do best-effort on docs for low cost * Most of us get reasonable quality documentation, much better than what some poor developer would turn out in spare moments * You are spared from the outrage of imperfect documentation

[dare944]

We wouldn't have these silly arguments?

[mort96]

Gah hopefully the meaning was clear from context, but I just realized I said "latter" when I meant "former". Inconsistent human documentation is better than miles upon miles of AI-slop documentation.

[systoll]

Given that people have access to LLMs themselves, publishing their output in lieu of good documentation (no matter how sparse) seems like it’s mostly downside.