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I’ve learned today that you are sensitive to ensuring human readability over any concerns in regard to AI consumption
The machine readable docs is the docstrings (or XML Documentation Comments or whatev), and the code itself. LLMs have completely melted these people’s brains.
Christ, what an asshole.
It’s even worse when you add the next few words:
The machine readable docs is the docstrings (or XML Documentation Comments or whatev), and the code itself. LLMs have completely melted these people’s brains.
I’m also partial to my eyes being useful in the things they do like reading.
Imagine that.
To be fair, he did ultimately merge the changes. He deserves to be ridiculed for the awful priorities, but a lot of people would dig in.
Completely tone deaf. At least they reconsidered and merged the PR after the backlash.