It was merged after they where rightfully ridiculed by the community.
The awful response to the backlash by matwojo really takes the cake:
I’ve learned today that you are sensitive to ensuring human readability over any concerns in regard to AI consumption
LLMs will replace software engineers any day now!
Also LLMs:
He’s right that it’s probably harder for AI to understand. But wrong in every other way possible. Human understanding should trump AI, at least while they’re as unreliable as they currently are.
Maybe one day AI will know how to not bullshit, and everyone will use it, and then we’ll start writing documentation specifically for AI. But that’s a long way off.
Having AI not bullshiting will require an entirely different set of algorithms than LLM, or ML in general. ML by design aproximates answers, and you don’t use it for anything that’s deterministic and has a correct answer. So, in that rwgard, we’re basically at square 0.
You can keep on slapping a bunch of checks on top of random text prediction it gives you, but if you have a way of checking if something is really true for every case imaginable, then you can probably just use that to instead generate the reply, and it can’t be something that’s also ML/random.
You can’t confidently say that because nobody knows how to solve the bullshitting issue. It might end up being very similar to current LLMs.
He admitted himself that it might not be harder for AI to understand.
The more apt headline is that Microsoft doesn’t pay enough people to review their documentation PRs. The org has 572 members but nearly every PR to this repo is processed by this one guy.
Even the dudes responses in those comments seem written by an AI.
