Post #2519971

2026-05-13 14:18 UTC

There really is an opportunity to do some interesting psychological research on why people are so much more willing to write documentation and detailed instructions for AI agents to write code for them than for other human beings to write code for them.

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@eviloatmeal@ak.angelstrapped.com 2026-05-13 14:24

@tael@yiff.life Because the LLM doesn't have follow-up questions.

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@petealexharris@mastodon.scot 2026-05-13 17:30

@tael@yiff.life The AI never says "I'm not sure that's a good idea" or "that's ambiguous" or "what are you actually trying to achieve, because there might be a better way"

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@technomancy@hey.hagelb.org 2026-05-13 17:32

@tael@yiff.life at least some of the time it's because bosses refused to allocate time for improving documentation for humans and now people are tricking into letting them invest in it because "it's for AI"

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@javascript@app.wafrn.net 2026-05-13 17:45

@tael@yiff.life Because part of that documentation can also be written by the same machine that is going to consume it later

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@drahardja@sfba.social 2026-05-13 18:00

@tael@yiff.life Because writing for AI agents gets them an immediate reward, but writing for others barely gets recognized, in most organizations. https://sfba.social/@drahardja/116471942829259364

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@kneath@indieweb.social 2026-05-13 20:26

@tael@yiff.life @mattly@hachyderm.io I don't think it's too complicated. LLMs will read documentation and instructions. People usually won't.

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