Microsoft refuses a documentation fix because AI might not understand text in tables
Microsoft refuses a documentation fix because AI might not understand text in tables
Microsoft is a proprietary software company, but a lot of its software components and documentation are under open licenses. For example, the documentation for the Windows Subsystem for Linux is un…
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.
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.
Completely tone deaf. At least they reconsidered and merged the PR after the backlash.
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.
I'm also partial to my eyes being useful in the things they do like reading.
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.
God I fucking hate AI lol
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.
