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AI documentation is like COBOL: voluminous, unreadable, and likely AI-generated

The author argues that files like AGENTS.MD, PROMPTS.MD, and SKILLS.MD represent the COBOL of the AI era, filled with excessive, unreadable text. They suspect over 90% of this content is AI-generated rather than human-written, questioning who would find such extensive documentation appealing. AI

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IMPACT Suggests that a significant portion of current AI-generated documentation may be of low quality and unreadable.

RANK_REASON Opinion piece from a social media post discussing the nature of AI-generated documentation.

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 · [email protected] ·

    AGENTS.MD, PROMPTS.MD, and SKILLS.MD are the COBOL of AI age. Voluminous pieces of textual garbage that humans wouldn't read, wouldn't be able to read entirely,

    AGENTS.MD, PROMPTS.MD, and SKILLS.MD are the COBOL of AI age. Voluminous pieces of textual garbage that humans wouldn't read, wouldn't be able to read entirely, and/or cannot read. I seriously wonder who looks at these markdown files and thinks "WOW!!! So much documentation......…