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Microsoft refuses a documentation fix because AI might not understand text in tables (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 1 week ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 44 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Wojciakowski took the critiques on board. “Wow, tough crowd … I’ve learned today that you are sensitive to ensuring human readability.”

Christ, what an asshole.

[–] Pyro@programming.dev 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Completely tone deaf. At least they reconsidered and merged the PR after the backlash.

[–] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago

It's even worse when you add the next few words:

I've learned today that you are sensitive to ensuring human readability over any concerns in regard to AI consumption

The machine readable docs is the docstrings (or XML Documentation Comments or whatev), and the code itself. LLMs have completely melted these people's brains.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

Imagine that.

To be fair, he did ultimately merge the changes. He deserves to be ridiculed for the awful priorities, but a lot of people would dig in.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago

I'm also partial to my eyes being useful in the things they do like reading.