Why I am not going to buy a computer

Post by ge96 » Wed, Jul 22, 2026, 4:00 PM UTC

bLorax wrote: post #23

ge96 wrote: post #12

I like buying old flagships since I couldn't afford them like 5-10 years ago. Still a few on my list would be neat to try like Specter 360, eventually I want one of the current newest XPS-13s I recently got a Pixelbook for $80 running Ubuntu on that, great little device as far as thinness Also like buying/trying out weird computers or old, like the ASUS Eee PCs or Librettos

did you even read the blog post my guy

Post by phoghed » Wed, Jul 22, 2026, 4:01 PM UTC

yoyohello13 wrote: post #25

datakan wrote: post #3

The uncanny valley is happening with enterprise work. My boss is in love with Copilot writing documentation that we've sorely needed for many years. He and I can bang out tons of it in minutes that would have taken months before. We do this and then no one reads it. I've asked people about it and they seem disillusioned. It wasn't written by a human so they see no human value in it. They view it as AI writing documen…

AI or not, most people never cared about documentation. I have always had to fight tooth and nail to get people to write shit down, and that hasn't changed with AI. In 2021 I wrote a ton of docs for outlining our deployment and various how-tos, basically just got a "cool thanks bro" for my time. People never cared, I think AI is just a convenient modern excuse.

Post by fluoridation » Wed, Jul 22, 2026, 4:01 PM UTC

datakan wrote: post #11

cogman10 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> He and I can bang out tons of it in minutes that would have taken months before Here's the problem I have. No doubt an LLM made it faster to write those docs, but did you fully spot check it for accuracy? A lot of people aren't which I think is why the average joe hates it. These docs can still have AI generated mistakes which are easily glossed over by a regular human.

> Here's the problem I have. No doubt an LLM made it faster to write those docs, but did you fully spot check it for accuracy? Yes. That was just the writing portion, there is a whole team that works on publishing and proof reading and there are acceptance levels all the way up to the CISO where people validate they read it and approved of the contents. Even with that, no one cares about it.

Post by saulpw » Wed, Jul 22, 2026, 4:02 PM UTC

embedding-shape wrote: post #4

datakan wrote: post #3

The uncanny valley is happening with enterprise work. My boss is in love with Copilot writing documentation that we've sorely needed for many years. He and I can bang out tons of it in minutes that would have taken months before. We do this and then no one reads it. I've asked people about it and they seem disillusioned. It wasn't written by a human so they see no human value in it. They view it as AI writing documen…

> no one reads it. [... ] they seem disillusioned Regardless of reasons they tell you, if no one reads your documentation, then it isn't good enough. Good documentation gets read, as long as it is good. It sounds to me like you're disillusioned, if you're not responding to the feedback, even if you sometimes have to look through the reasons people tell you on the surface.

   - they don't know about it
   - they can't find it when they need it
   - they just don't read documentation (quite common)
   - they've been burned by stale docs in the past

Post by toast0 » Wed, Jul 22, 2026, 4:02 PM UTC

datakan wrote: post #3

The uncanny valley is happening with enterprise work. My boss is in love with Copilot writing documentation that we've sorely needed for many years. He and I can bang out tons of it in minutes that would have taken months before. We do this and then no one reads it. I've asked people about it and they seem disillusioned. It wasn't written by a human so they see no human value in it. They view it as AI writing documen…