alt Hacker NewsPeople never really read documentation before. Agents do read it now, and they seem to understand LLM-written text just fine.
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latentsea • today at 1:42 AM
>People never really read documentation before.
Speak for yourself. I read it.
dannyw • today at 12:52 AM
What? People never read documentation?
I start with reading and exploring documentation first; with the codebase as a secondary tab.
When it’s not LLM generated, documentation is supposed to be easier to read and more insightful than code.
> People never really read documentation before.
The heck you talking about? How do you think we wrote software for the last 50 years?