Comment by saulpw
7 days ago
LLM-generated documentation is great for LLMs to read so they can code better and/or more efficiently. You can write it manually, but as I've discovered over the decades, humans rarely read documentation anyway. So you'll be spending a lot of time writing good for the bots.
I guess I can understand that, but please at least put a warning on it that says "if you actually take the time to read this you'll have spent more effort on it than its author did" so I know not to waste my time.
Heh, maybe how articles say "a 7 minute read" they should also include the time it took to write it. "a 3 hour write"
This is odd to hear. All the best programmers I know are actually adamant readers of documentation, how else could you be a good programmer without reading the docs? I will say devs admitting to not reading docs does definitely explain how shit current software is from big tech.