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0 pointsioasuncvinvaer7mo ago0 comments

But it is a pretty good signal of low quality.

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A signal is something you use to discern something in lue of direct information. In the case of docs, just look at them and if they suck, or are good, it doesn't really matter where they came from. That being said, Ill take AI generated docs over no docs, and no docs is very common.

ioasuncvinvaerOP7mo ago

But how do you know if you can trust the docs if they are AI generated?

BobbyJo7mo ago

How do you know if you can trust then if they are human generated? Your trust the people. AI isn't going to jump and just generate docs, a person has to prompt it, and you should expect the person to proof read and correct it. If the person turns out to be untrustworthy, you stop trusting them.

pixl977mo ago

I mean, the quality of docs before AI was pretty low quality and forums everywhere were filled with complaints about it, except in the case of a few exceptional pieces of software. If this is the case, just having docs at all seems to be a signal of low quality.

ioasuncvinvaerOP7mo ago

No! Well written docs are a sign of quality. Obviously AI generated docs make me question whether they are actually correct which makes them useless.

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BobbyJo7mo ago

ioasuncvinvaerOP7mo ago

But how do you know if you can trust the docs if they are AI generated?

BobbyJo7mo ago

pixl977mo ago

ioasuncvinvaerOP7mo ago

No! Well written docs are a sign of quality. Obviously AI generated docs make me question whether they are actually correct which makes them useless.

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