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by serious_angel 4 days ago
Nonsense. Apologies, but please consider the infinitely magnificent world out there... and not your own echo-chambered desaturated imagination.

I've been a travelling developer at military for security services for more than two decades now, and there's not a single soul out there I know in person who would expect or claim that any documentation is not for people but machines exclusively or initially even.

A documentation, whether formatted/standardized/conventional or not, is for a human, and always will be, because this is what you leave in the history of your own work of life.

    > You can add a README file to your repository to tell other __people__ why your project is useful, what they can do with your project, and how they can use it.
    > 
    > Source: https://github.com/github/docs/blob/9af628699ba0d381fb04929a6384c70d63cef8b9/content/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/customizing-your-repository/about-readmes.md