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Post #1581243

2026-04-23 08:55 UTC

People who previously wouldn't touch a README.md with a ten foot pole are now writing entire novels in Markdown for their AI tooling.

Replies (11)

  • @mmeier@social.mei-home.net 2026-04-23 09:17

    @frederic@chaos.social Yes. People who couldn't be arsed to write a single word of documentation for their human colleagues suddenly don't have any issue at all with writing miles and miles of instructions for their AI colleagues. Same for people who previously couldn't find time to mentor a student or new junior colleague because "it's too much work to describe the task in enough detail". For their LLM? No problem at all. 🤷 That's the one that really gets under my skin.

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  • @frederic also, developers who never gave a shit about #accessibility now bending over backwards to make their forms/controls "AI agent friendly" ... https://mastodon.social/@patrick_h_lauke/116453512115422196

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  • @jhauge@mastodon.green 2026-04-23 11:26

    @frederic seeing the same - as a person with a mild obsession over readme files I will say this - AI tooling is better at getting through reading of readmes than most devs I worked with. If I had a dime for each time I've written "It's in the readme" or "This should be in the readme" in chats …

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  • @mmu_man@m.g3l.org 2026-04-23 12:02

    @frederic reminds me of the "Oh no Linux is too complex you have to use the command line" crowd that at the same time dig entire forums to find the REGEDIT magic to make their games work on Windows…

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  • @kirakira@furry.engineer 2026-04-23 18:55

    @frederic i can't believe this is what it took for people to write readable high level docs

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  • @StaticRocket@defcon.social 2026-04-23 19:09

    @frederic same people who refused to install a linter

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  • @Julianoe@mastodon.xyz 2026-04-23 21:41

    @frederic often times it is not even a good documentation or README.md for humans still.

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  • @frederic i dont know what, but this says *something*

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  • @jwalzer@infosec.exchange 2026-04-24 07:27

    @frederic Yes, And people who celebrated the freedom of "just talking to the computer in human language" and "getting rid of formal programming languages" are now definiing specifications how a good AGENT.md or RULES.md or SKILLS.md has to be written ... to formalize the language to talk to the computers

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  • @vyskocilm@witter.cz 2026-04-24 14:34

    @frederic shameless plug: this is similar observation with my recent AI rant https://witter.cz/@vyskocilm/116458894498710840

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  • @mitsunee@mk.absturztau.be 2026-04-23 16:57

    @frederic@chaos.social and then there's a group of users who say they don't know markdown until you call it "discord formatting" ​:neofox_floof_explode:​

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