yes i understand that the problem is that I was writing this as I was investigating. I had a huge file of notes that I kept adding to as I went, than got back to add again each time and eventually turned that into the writeup. So what you're reading is quite literally my path towards understanding and solving the problem, rather than something I wrote afterwards with a predefined structure and roadmap
When I don't know what you're going to tell me, I lose interest. When I hit descriptions of memory freeing right away, I don't know: are we going to blather in the weeds about pointers or malloc or ... ? When am I going to get to the part that's new to me? Etc. It's just hard to read, if I don't have to read it.
LLMs make this a whole lot worse because they don't need context like human readers and authors do. They can just jump right in. So they don't care, and they won't flag this, and if you end up writing for them, your writing won't be valuable to humans who need to learn.