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dofm • today at 4:25 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

I actually want to have a play with this sometime. But honestly, these gigantic, poorly-formatted AI-slop paragraphs like the one below this heading…

https://github.com/mikroverk/esp32sim#boards-esp32-s3

… are just too much with their dense mix of formatting, brackets, semantic punctuation, command line arguments and part numbers etc. (This one is particularly absurd but it's not the only one).

I may be middle-aged now and a non-expert but I am pretty sure these things are generally exhausting to even expert young readers. I would urge you to reconsider how this page is presented.

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exe34 • today at 5:27 PM

#this-should-have-been-a-table.

rvz • today at 4:45 PM

I can tell that a README.md becomes a DONTREADME.md when its contents are:

   1) As long as a novel.

   2) Poorly formatted.

   3) Has several claudisms in each sentence.
It is one that I am not going to read and not even the author read it themselves either.

It’s also a predictor of the level of slop in a project since it is getting worse with the people talking about “code quality” have now vanished and are no where to be found.