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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh get fucked. This was exactly my fear, as AI use ramps up, the web will quickly be designed to cater to AIs over real humans.

Get double fucked, mattwojo of Microsoft. Take that stupid handlebar mustache and shove it up your ass.

[–] rayquetzalcoatl 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I tend to hate tech and the future generally.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

it is chefskiss.tiff that I keep "having conversations"[0] where people tell me that "AI" is "well-suited" to "data extraction that traditional tools struggle with" and then datapoints like this keep. coming. up.

[0] - I....am not inviting these. the promptfans just Defend their twisted little hearts away, unasked. it is tedious.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago