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eibrahim ◴[] No.45949622[source]
So many comments about the AI generation part. Why does it matter? If it’s good and accurate and helpful why do you care? That’s like saying you used a calculator to calculate your equations so I can’t trust you.

I am just impressed by the quality and details and approach of it all.

Nicely done (PS: I know nothing about systems programming and I have been writing code for 25 years)

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gassi ◴[] No.45949749[source]
> Why does it matter?

Because AI gets things wrong, often, in ways that can be very difficult to catch. By their very nature LLMs write text that sounds plausible enough to bypass manual review (see https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-s...), so some find it best to avoid using it at all when writing documentation.

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DrNosferatu ◴[] No.45949854[source]
Humans get things wrong too.

Quality prose usually only becomes that after many reviews.

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1. loeg ◴[] No.45950602[source]
AI gets things wrong ("hallucinates") much more often than actual subject matter experts. This is disingenuous.
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2. rootlocus ◴[] No.45951127[source]
Presumably the "subject matter expert" will review the output of the LLM, just like a reviewer. I think it's disingenuous to assume that just because someone used AI they didn't look at or reviewed the output.
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3. littlestymaar ◴[] No.45951409[source]
A serious one yes.

But why would a serious person claim that they wrote this without AI when it's obvious they used it?!

Using any tool is fine, but someone bragging about not having used a tool they actually used should make you suspicious about the amount of care that went to their work.