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David Gerard

Microsoft refuses pull request to put documentation in readable table form because LLMs are bad at parsing tables github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/p

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Max von Webel

@davidgerard To paraphrase: We won't change it, we don't expect anyone to read it anyway.

Pretty impressive statement.

samir, unbelievable

@davidgerard Hmmm, I wonder why so many people need a layer of interpretation on top of this long-winded and incomprehensible documentation.

Wait.

Petra

@davidgerard oh hey, it's the bullet point email comic but for real

dflxh

@davidgerard why would you even volunteer to contribute to the docs of a commercial proprietary microsoft software

"Wale"

@davidgerard I know how (certain types of) developers avoid writing documentation like the plague, but avoiding *reading* documentation by passing it off to an unaccountable black box is deeply absurd.

Rant, Rot and Ruin

@davidgerard how many fingers does this mattwojo guy have

Ada Hashtag

@RantRotAndRuin @davidgerard I don't know but he has an app to help busy dads also be cool dads

Chris Armstrong

@davidgerard

Coming soon: MS depreciates the usability of Excel and SPO lists in order to let Copilot read them better.

Aljoscha Rittner (beandev)

@Rhodium103
I think that a PR that reduces the columns to "A" will be accepted.
@davidgerard

ninelore
@davidgerard AI will take over the world after all because no matter how bad or dumb the AI, it will get worshipped anyway.
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