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adastra22 • yesterday at 10:42 PM • 6 replies • view on HN

I would throw the entire docs out and write it from scratch in your own words. I get that we live in an era where the machine writes most/all of the code, and I can accept that. What I need, to even consider using and extending this project, is some understanding of what part of the design is yours and what part is accident by Claude. I can't get that from reading Claudese.


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assimpleaspossi • today at 1:21 AM

>>I get that we live in an era where the machine writes most/all of the code

Only on the Internet is this true, not in real life. I cannot and do not trust any of these things to do a proper job because they have not in any situation succeeded in any job I've given them. And no company I deal with claims otherwise

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dirkt • today at 6:13 AM

Eh, I think the tutorial is pretty readable? It's concise enough.

With the tutorial, the summary also makes more sense. I have not read the other parts yet, but so far I like what I see.

All is in pretty good taste, and I like what I've seen so far. I do not care if the author himself came up with the idea, or if AI came up with it and the author approved.

I do not understand why you "have to" know this to make use of it. You can judge ideas independently of where they came from (and you should).

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WillAdams • today at 12:04 AM

The version of the documentation which I would very much like to see would be a Literate Programming version where all the code is explained from the ground up.

Apparently, this can actually assist the LLM:

https://silly.business/blog/we-should-revisit-literate-progr...

as discussed here previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47300747

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fasteo • today at 8:33 AM

I do not think you know who this guy is

polski-g • today at 1:12 AM

Once a week, I tell Antigravity (3.8-flash) to rewrite every code comment and documentation that was changed in the past week. Neither GPT nor Claude can write like a human.

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felixgallo • yesterday at 10:57 PM

We as a society have to cut this low effort commenting out. The documentation is perfectly comprehensible. What action would you take differently if a given feature were implemented by Claude, or a human?

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