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It's one of the main things I learned when working as tech support and I talked with users all day. Nobody reads anything.
I 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/AD…
Watching the Artemis II splashdown and following media event, I’m suspicious that a woman from TechTalk Media read out some LLM blurb instead of asking a question; I can’t prove it, but I can almost hear the em-dash in: "What you have done this week is remind the people of Earth that wonder is worth chasing. That curiosity is the most human thing we have. You didn't just test a spacecraft -- you tested mankind's pote…
This signals something that is happening somehow predictably due to the increasing abundance of code. It exponentially grows the surface offered for understanding (text as in comments, docs etc) and our attention bandwidth, well, is not exponentially growing, so...
Mini-article is from 2007.
At the time, more reports were generated than humans could read. People weren't reading them for good reason.
I suspect author is more annoyed about people being (grossly) negligent in reading important things.
[0]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/26/designing-for-peop...
This signals something that is happening somehow predictably due to the increasing abundance of code. It exponentially grows the surface offered for understanding (text as in comments, docs etc) and our attention bandwidth, well, is not exponentially growing, so...
The LLMs read everything .