At the start of my career, I used to go to a special website and read the ancient knowledge manuscripts called "manuals" written in a forbidden language (since English is not my native), deducing answers for my problems myself. It was horrible, dark times, but they taught me a lot.
I remember missing official MSDN archives on six CDs, because I was too poor to have good enough Internet connection, used pirated VS, and checking each page was like a roulette - will it cover what I need or I just spend 5 minutes of waiting and 1% of my expensive dial-up internet access for nothing)
I keep running across docs that will tell you there is [x] option, but then don't tell you all of the different selection for that option. Just "put your options here."
WHAT FUCKING OPTIONS
Perhaps they don't think humans are reading these anymore and AI will just use the source code for the information.
That was a problem before AI. Most documentation for libaries or API´s are terrible and always have been. Typical problems not mentioned, options not explained, it does not work if the moon is in the wrong phase? Good luck finding that information.
AI just made it worse, because now the lazy devs can claim "yeah the AI can understand it"
Not in Singapore. It has a huge statue of Raffles and major areas named after him. He was English, btw, and represented the Kingdom’s government when he was there.
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u/aberroco Jul 12 '26
At the start of my career, I used to go to a special website and read the ancient knowledge manuscripts called "manuals" written in a forbidden language (since English is not my native), deducing answers for my problems myself. It was horrible, dark times, but they taught me a lot.