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OneManHordetoday at 8:38 AM4 repliesview on HN

Microsoft is so broken that an employee finds it easier to write a blog post about a documentation improvement than simply making that improvement? Explains a lot. "Conway's Flaw?"


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bombcartoday at 12:05 PM

Raymond's important and high up enough that he probably only needs the approval of three AIs and five managers to publish a blog - updating documentation likely needs twice that.

throawayonthetoday at 9:04 AM

the blog says the documentation improvement was made in 2020? presumably not by the post author either

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sebastianmestretoday at 12:23 PM

He used his blog to queue the work to be executed asynchronously by another MS worker that reads it

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chadgpt3today at 10:09 AM

Always been that way