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by delfinom 10 days ago
To be fair, AI writing is often unhuman. The biggest problem its more verbose than human writing. It adds additional not needed mental load in processing text.

Even in code documentation, I just need a function block that says "DO NOT PASS A VALUE OF 2", with maybe a deeper comment that says "yea the math breaks here", instead of a 5 page discourse on why you should not pass a value of 2.

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The AI seems to put it's internal reasoning into comments. I have to keep telling it to knock it the fuck off.
You make a good point but it's also subjective. The documentation we need is all technical in nature so we aren't looking for Shakespeare or Tolkien here. We just need it to be accurate and usable, which it is.
Part of being quickly usable might be the brevity or utilitarian style. Maybe it looks intimidatingly long?