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by sensanaty·2d ago·view on hn ↗
Whenever I read any AI-generated documentation of any kind, it feels like my brain immediately blanks and I can't comprehend what I'm reading. It's like my brain blocks out the particular combo of word AIs love to use and 0 information manages to make it in there.

I think it's because it's basically always a high-level, rough overview of a topic that isn't quite correct. It's using 10x the words necessary to say nothing at all. It is a large, featureless wall of words that ultimately tells you absolutely nothing. It's simultaneously too verbose while also not actually saying anything useful.

Maybe my attention span has just gotten worse or something, but I don't really get the same sensation reading good quality docs that I know were human-generated so it must be something specific to how AIs form their paragraphs of noise.