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Chris OldwoodWatching devs suddenly discover that the ability to write was important all along...
Chris Pitts@chrisoldwood I know. Nuts, isn't it?
It’s quite annoying for my youngest too as he hates English as much as I did as a kid :o).
(I got a U at O’Level initially for both Lang and Lit. Eventually scraped a C, luckily he’s doing much better than me.)
Dofain@chrisoldwood @Enalys but if you say "Writing documentation for ai agent for humans" then you don't know if it's for ai agents to control humans or for humans to control ai agents or for aliens to control both...
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Austin Bingham@chrisoldwood this is a discussion Rob and I have had. Writing, and trying to write clearly, has really paid off!
Just so long as I don’t have to learn what all those “past present tense first definite article participle” weird grammar phrases mean :o).
@chrisoldwood the only tense you need is prophetic perfect tense - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophetic_perfect_tense
Mike Anderson@chrisoldwood let's be honest here: they're never going to write the documentation themselves - they'll get an AI to do it.
Totally. People are already using one agent to write the prompt that they’ll feed into another agent. It’s 🐢 all the way down…
Luke Kanies@chrisoldwood @philip right? Good docs, extensive specs, and lots of philosophical guidance on stuff like how we work, the importance of DRY, and all kinds of other stuff they should have been writing down all this time and absolutely refuse
babble encat@chrisoldwood Staying awake in my Composition and Communications and Technical Writing classes has really paid off for me over my whole career
To be fair, I didn’t start paying attention until I was almost in my thirties, so this is definitely me berating a younger me :o).