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Linus Torvalds: "The AI Slop Issue Is NOT Going To Be Solved With Documentation" (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Hell no. Programmers must not just only write code, of course they do have to write the documentation because it is their work and using LLMs only encourages laziness and potentially cause confusion. Why we had extensive business English classes asides from programming in C or Pascal for DOS.