I use the term in mild jest, relative to the new fashion of having LLMs blast out huge broken tracts of code for me to detangle. I guess “old-fashioned” can mean outdated but that’s not what I mean here, just “the manner in which I wrote code before I had access to LLMs”

Any methodology becomes old-fashioned if it sticks around long enough to see the next new fashion. Though the new fashion has also made me seriously consider the goat herder route. Turns out it’s a tough industry to move into.

I’ve had good luck with the docs so far, but I only just just got started with them so maybe I just haven’t encountered any issues yet. Overall though, for the level of quality they’ve managed to put on a FOSS tool I’m happy to grant them a few rough patches in the doc.