alt Hacker News> READMEs get to the front page and nobody seems to notice that it's written in grating Claudese
Or you know, it's just not that important whether the README is written by Claude or not.
Generally speaking people don't use a service/library for the author's ability to write excellent proses.
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benrbray • yesterday at 4:59 PM
Presentation matters. Good documentation is evidence of a library that has been carefully thought through. Slop in the readme suggests slop in the code.
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add-sub-mul-div • yesterday at 4:43 PM
In this case the point is that they accompany the new flood of low-effort self-promoted shovelware vibecode projects.
> Generally speaking people don't use a service/library for the author's ability to write excellent proses.
I think this is incredibly wrong. I'd even go as far to say that a well presented README/website is the second most important factor, only behind network effect.