alt Hacker NewsAs always, improving accessibility for humans makes automation more effective. If the humans need to remember a PhD's worth of source code/documentation to contribute effectively, your codebase stinks.
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bonesss • yesterday at 5:24 PM
I agree, in the general context of how I code.
The LLM hype train has me reflecting on what a spoiled existence working in a ‘proper’ language provides though…
React devs, JS devs, front-end devs working on large sites and frameworks might be triggering tens of files to be brought into context. What an OCaml dev can bring in through a 5 line union type can look very different in less token-efficient and terse languages.
People at my company have started writing docs specifically for claude. They're quite useful for me too, but kinda disappointing they never wrote these docs for their colleagues.