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WSL documentation fix initially rejected because AI has difficulty understanding markdown tables (github.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de to c/programming@programming.dev

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It was merged after they where rightfully ridiculed by the community.

The awful response to the backlash by matwojo really takes the cake:

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

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[–] Joeffect@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If it can't understand human text then is it really worth using? Like isn't that the minimum standard here, to get context and understand from text?

I don't have any game in this but this seems backwards and stupid... Especially since all AI currently is fancy pattern matching basically

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev -5 points 1 week ago

It can understand, just not as well.