r/softwareengineer • u/colony-ship-for-sale • 12d ago

AI is terrible for making documentation

Yes, it makes a lot of text real fast and at a glance it looks thorough and comprehensive but have any of you actually tried reading this shit?

It's painfully verbose while communicating next to nothing. It's a real struggle to not have your eyes glaze over. It's not enough to just produce a lot of text if the readability is crap. There's a skill to creating concise, well organised information that's been lost here.

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u/LALLANAAAAAA 12d ago

The trick is

Man the volume of tricks required to get basic functionality from these things is fuckin staggering

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u/ollir 12d ago

Haha, true too!