Post #4411385

2026-08-06 08:34 UTC

@siblingsofthevoid@void.lgbt Any dev offering that as a legitimate solution to their software / code should have their computer access taken away. If the users have to turn to predictive text on crack to try and figure out details about your software, and it isn't something inherently eldritch knowledge like regex, you have failed. It's one thing for someone like me to, in desperation, turn to a chatbot to ask for a script to convert a bunch of folders with unicode fraction slashes in their names into the actual intended directory structure with real slashes. It's another to go "Oh, you want to know how X works? Go ask Claude"

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@siblingsofthevoid@void.lgbt 2026-08-06 08:44

@rosaaeterna@transfem.social okay, lemme tell you about the original post real quick. That'll add context you may find interesting. I explained to someone why I don't like docker and what I dislike about it. Docker in general isn't bad, but it has created a culture of not describing how to set up any given application and constantly not documenting locations of storage directories, configurations or other stuff. Their response to that was "oh just go ask an LLM to look for you". For something that would've taken the devs no longer than describing 2 things: 1. Every environment variable used and what it does 2. every storage directory and how it's laid out. I don't expect anything more than that. I gave opencloud as an example. Great application, terrible documentation. They expect you to use their docker compose file and give zero info on how else to do it other than "it's not supported".

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