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Re:A 100x faster* alternative to homebrew by sevg on Thursday October 08, 2026 @01:14AM (#50002007)
Warning for those that care: LLM readme.
Re:A 100x faster* alternative to homebrew by iagooar on Thursday October 08, 2026 @01:36AM (#50002104)
I wonder how the industry has not yet learned to use ASD-STE100 Simple Technical English for documentation. It makes it so much more polished and so much less AI-sloppy.
Re:A 100x faster* alternative to homebrew by saagarjha on Thursday October 08, 2026 @03:49AM (#50002974)
I wonder how the industry has not yet learned that humans like to read human prose instead of Claude with a disguise
Re:A 100x faster* alternative to homebrew by worthless-trash on Thursday October 08, 2026 @01:50AM (#50002179)
I find the english perhaps a little too rigid when reading it for non technical manuals. I do agree though it is definitely LESS slop.
Re:A 100x faster* alternative to homebrew by cachebag on Thursday October 08, 2026 @09:06AM (#50005371)
Incorrect, I wrote every line myself.
Re:A 100x faster* alternative to homebrew by sevg on Thursday October 08, 2026 @09:18AM (#50005490)
If you don’t care about hand-writing a readme, fine nobody is forcing you, but to lie about it is just sad.
Re:A 100x faster* alternative to homebrew by cachebag on Thursday October 08, 2026 @09:41AM (#50005714)
What an odd thing to lie about. Did you even read the thing? Or you did you see too many words and figure, "meh, probably AI generated."