Yeah, i'm also surprised people just read post title and jump to conclusions ...
The Miller Principle (2007)
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#12I wish this was the case. Then we wouldn't have a minority of us deeply frustrated :)
'Thanks for the doc, let's set a meeting' (implied: so you can read the doc aloud to us ) is the bane of my existence.
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#13I read this entire post and all the comments this disproving the Miller principle
This principle applies to the following:
- User documentation
- Specifications
- Code comments
- Any text on a user interface
- Any email longer than one line
Re: The Miller Principle (2007)
#14Should probably be "The Miller Principle (2007)"
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#15I think this is more true now than ever. Before LLMs, when someone came up with an ADR/RFC/etc you had to read it because you had to approve it or reject it. People were putting effort and, yeah, you could use them in your next perf. review to gain extra points. You could easily distinguish well written docs from the crap (that also made the job of reviewing them easie)
Nowadays everyone can generate a 20-page RFC/ADR and even though you can tell if they are LLM generated, you cannot easily reject them based on that factor only. So here we are spending hours reading something the author spent 5 min. to generate (and barely knows what’s about).
Same goes for documentation, PRs, PRs comments…
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#17I have found much value in reading the python and sqlite documentation. The Arch wiki is another reliable source. Good documentation is hard.
I don't know. Under pressure and stress all docs are ugly.
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#18The LLMs read everything .
It doesn't mean they're paying attention.
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#19It's one of the main things I learned when working as tech support and I talked with users all day. Nobody reads anything.
Re: The Miller Principle (2007)
#20..and emails
> Any email longer than one line
it's in there