Comment by benjamincburns

I think a lot of the time it's prompt leakage. Forgive the personification, but it's like they don't have a mental model of the reader of the thing that they're authoring being separate from the person who's prompting them to author it, so it often seems like the main conversation kind of spills into the prose.

Not to pick on GenHTTP Lambda, especially because I think it's someone's fun side project, but I was just trying to read though their docs and I was finding it super difficult. I kept getting distracted thinking "why the hell did it write it _that_ way?"

Like, the first sentence of "The control center" section [1] is the exact sort of weird negation that you're describing:

> The editor link opens a control center rather than a text box: most of the code here is written by agents, so the first thing on the screen is how your lambda is doing.

I can't help but think it generated the first round of the page with a text box to paste the code into, got told "no, I want a control center," and then this ended up in the docs.

I also think the phrasing of that sentence (and many others in those docs) is just super weird and unnatural - e.g. "so the first thing on the screen is how your lambda is doing." It also feels like it mirrors a prompt - like, "no, it should be a control center, not a text box, and the first thing the user should see is how their lambda is doing." But in docs I'd never expect it to be written "the status of your lambda" or "the health of your lambda." And what does the code being written by agents have to do with it?

1: https://genhttp.dev/en/docs#editor