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...

Not a new trend.

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.