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Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by peteforde on Sunday January 11, 2026 @08:50PM (#46582864)
Another lens is that many people either have terrible written communication skills, do not intuitively grasp how to describe a complex system design, or both. And yet, since everyone is a genius with 100% comprehensibility in their own mind, they simply aren't aware that the problem starts with them.
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Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by CjHuber on Sunday January 11, 2026 @09:09PM (#46583049)
Well I think it also has to do with communication with LLMs being different to communication with humans. If you tell a developer "don't do busywork" they surely wouldn't say "Oh the repo looks like a trash dump, but no busywork so I'm not going to clean it up, quickly document that as canonical structure, then continue"
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Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype by kaydub on Monday January 12, 2026 @09:42AM (#46589177)
> have terrible written communication skills

More and more I think this is it.

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