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Re:Show HN: Esp32sim – Run ESP32 firmware in the browser by rvz on Saturday October 17, 2026 @12:45PM (#50132643)
I can tell that a README.md becomes a DONTREADME.md when its contents are:

   1) As long as a novel.

   2) Poorly formatted.

   3) Has several claudisms in each sentence.
It is one that I am not going to read and not even the author read it themselves either.

It’s also a predictor of the level of slop in a project since it is getting worse with the people talking about “code quality” have now vanished and are no where to be found.

Re:Show HN: Esp32sim – Run ESP32 firmware in the browser by joakimeriksson on Sunday October 18, 2026 @04:16AM (#50139053)
True... Will take a pass - we are planning a 0.3.0. release I guess that is when we also should make it possible for humans to read the README and not only for agents...