FredericApr 23
People who previously wouldn't touch a README.md with a ten foot pole are now writing entire novels in Markdown for their AI tooling.
Show threadMichaelApr 23

@frederic Yes. People who couldn't be arsed to write a single word of documentation for their human colleagues suddenly don't have any issue at all with writing miles and miles of instructions for their AI colleagues.

Same for people who previously couldn't find time to mentor a student or new junior colleague because "it's too much work to describe the task in enough detail". For their LLM? No problem at all. 🤷
That's the one that really gets under my skin.

Show threadgeraldew

@mmeier @frederic That's curious, because that aspect doesn't seem to bug me.

I'm the person who writes documentation of techniques I've derived and shares them with colleagues - none of whom ever seem to return the favour.

However, they will happily video chat about or screen-share what they've done, so it's not the sharing part that puts them off.

My guess is that commitment into stored text scares them, plus the risk of it being critiqued - and they know the LLM won't do that.

Apr 23 at 11:24amWeb