Comment by mcdonje
2 days ago
I, too, am concerned about AIs not reading the docs. What happens when a new W3C spec comes out and most people are vibe coding? If AIs don't take current specs into account and just regurgitate old code patterns, then disseminating spec updates or new specs will be harder than it already is.
Most people don't care about W3C specs as it is, nevermind with vibe coding. The React release notes are the important web standards they follow.
I was filled with a definite sadness after reading your comment. It is what it is.
Alternate problem. I was trying to fix up an old repo I found which used some pdf tool, but when trying an LLM it insisted on reading all the documentation, but the docs were woefully out of date and didn't match the actually binaries, so it got terribly twisted up.
Yeah llms don’t read docs. They repeat the info in docs. And swap letters around the code to make it fit.