alt Hacker NewsDepends on what your prose is for. If it's for documentation, then prose which matches the expected tone and form of other similar docs would be clichéd in this perspective. I think this is a really good use of LLMs - making docs consistent across a large library / codebase.
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minimaxir • last Sunday at 2:30 AM
I have been testing agentic coding with Claude 4.5 Opus and the problem is that it's too good at documentation and test cases. It's thorough in a way that it goes out of scope, so I have to edit it down to increase the signal-to-noise.
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dcre • last Sunday at 2:33 AM
Docs also often don’t have anyone’s name on them, in which case they’re already attributed to an unknown composite author.
A problem I’ve found with LLMs for docs is that they are like ten times too wordy. They want to document every path and edge case rather focusing on what really matters.
It can be addressed with prompting, but you have to fight this constantly.