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vonunov 40 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: It's Not Just X. It's Y

/* This function doesn't return an int. It doesn't return a float. It doesn't return a char. It doesn't ret-- */

badc0ffee 40 days ago [–]

I've seen AI-generated API documentation do this: "Good for X and Y. Do NOT use for Z - use foo instead."

A human writer would add that sparingly, for cases where there might be some ambiguity. But the bot added that to basically every single API endpoint.

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