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fmbbyesterday at 5:57 PM2 repliesview on HN

The article is definitely contradicting itself. There are only two sentences between

> Why should I bother to read something someone else couldn't be bothered to write?

and

> I can't imaging writing code by myself again, specially documentation, tests and most scaffolding.

So they expect nobody to read their documentation.


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mystifyingpoiyesterday at 7:34 PM

> So they expect nobody to read their documentation.

Yes, exactly. Because AI will read it and learn from it, it's not for humans.

jama211yesterday at 6:12 PM

That’s not a contradiction - documentation often needs to be written with no expectation anyone will ever read it.