| ▲ | exizt88 3 hours ago |
| I refuse to take a repo with an AI-generated readme seriously. If you haven't bothered to write a readme, what else have you not bothered to do? (100% AI according to Pangram btw) |
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| ▲ | quasarj 31 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| Not sure why it matters? I can't tell the difference, personally, but even if I could the AI is much more likely to have given complete and accurate information than any human.. |
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| ▲ | tasuki 30 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > I refuse to take a repo with an AI-generated readme seriously. If you haven't bothered to write a readme, what else have you not bothered to do? I care whether the readme is any good, not who wrote it. If you haven't bothered to critique the readme and instead critique its suspected creator — something entirely in your head — what else have you not bothered to do? > (100% AI according to Pangram btw) So what? Who cares about Pangram? I certainly don't! You cannot detect AI — it's impossible. Perhaps it's just Kenyans?[0] [0]: https://marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-li... |
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| ▲ | sergiotapia 17 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| there's no need to announce this. might as well announce you don't eat meat, or you don't like electricity. |
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| ▲ | asteroidburger 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Why does AI-generated imply "not bothered" to you? If I take all of my design docs/specs, all of the existing repo, and I tell an agent that I'd like to make a readme that contains things X, Y, and Z, what's the problem? Rejecting slop doesn't imply rejecting all AI-generated text wholesale. |
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| ▲ | sigotirandolas 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > Why does AI-generated imply "not bothered" to you? 1. AI generated text is just hard to read and verbose, if you worked so hard on your docs/specs, why would you want your README to be unreadable? 2. There's so much garbage written with AI that I'm just going to assume yours also is. Would you sign up to a gym with broken windows? It could be the best gym ever, but I wouldn't count on it. | |
| ▲ | JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > what's the problem? I can do it. Anyone can do it. Probably better for my/their own needs than someone else’s agent can. The README is meant to communicate substance and intent. Without the latter it’s an overly-verbose landing page. | |
| ▲ | davidbanham 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | If it wasn’t important enough for someone to take the time to write, it isn’t important enough for me to take the time to read. | |
| ▲ | user43928 38 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | We all know AI does not write well today. What JetBrains needs is nothing short of a revolutionary product, which they would need to sell with an excellent introduction. Instead they phoned it in and pasted that slop: > Once a GitHub PR is open it shows the CI checks and review decision, and lets you mark it ready, hand failing checks or a diverged branch to the agent, merge it with the repository's last-used method, reopen it, or delete the remote branch. | |
| ▲ | FridgeSeal 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The problem is that it’s market or care and respect. If you can’t even be bothered to while a simple readme communication your intentions, what else can’t you be bothered doing properly? It’s a marker that the project is likely to be low-effort slop, which may or may not just be abandoned at the deep of a hat. | |
| ▲ | troupo 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Because AI-generated README means that the person doesn't care about the audience. It means that the author never read the README themselves to see that the "load-bearing ground truths" actually reflect what the project is about, and not some hallucinated bullshit. There's a famous Jobs story in which he insisted that even the insides of the computers be made beautiful. Because that shows care. Now people are arguing that even the outsides can be as ugly as they want, who cares. | | |
| ▲ | ChrisClark 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | What if they read it and concluded it was correct? | | |
| ▲ | JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > What if they read it and concluded it was correct? Then I’ll probably hear about it again from someone I trust. I don’t need to be the first in my circle to test if this one is different. | |
| ▲ | matkoniecz 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | If they read it and were fine with blatant llmese, then I do not trust their review abilities at all. |
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| ▲ | matkoniecz 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > Why does AI-generated imply "not bothered" to you? If it is blatant unfixed llmese, then it means that no effort whatsoever was put into making this text. |
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| ▲ | vehemenz 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
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| ▲ | cebert 25 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > I refuse to take a repo with an AI-generated readme seriously. Well, good luck in professional development then. Love it or hate it, this is the way everything is moving. |
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| ▲ | smallnix 43 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] |
| But why read it? Just point your agent at it and use your personalized project exploration skill. |
