alt Hacker NewsThe LLM writes it with the purpose you gave it, to remember why it did things when it goes to change things later. The difference between humans and AI is that humans skip the document step because they think they can just remember everything, AI doesn’t have that luxury.
Just say the model uses the files to seed token state. Anthropomorphizing the thing is silly.
And no, you don't skip the documentation because you "think you can just remember everything". It's a tradeoff.
Documentation is not free to maintain (no, not even the AI version) and bad or inaccurate documentation is worse than none, because it wastes everyone's time.
You build a mental map of how the code is structured and where to find what you need, and you build a mental model of how the system works. Understanding, not memorization.
When prod goes down you really don't wanna be faffing about going "hey Alexa, what's a database index".