Vicki Boykis Urges 'Write for People' Amidst AI-Generated Text Bloat
vboykis · x · 2026-08-13
Engineer Vicki Boykis published a blog post discussing the negative impact of automatically generated text on human collaboration. She notes that as more PR descriptions and explanatory artifacts are generated by machines, navigating codebases as a human is becoming an exercise in futility.
Key Points:
- While some jargon is a good shortcut between peers, long text explanations generated by machines (like bloating a simple "bumped dependencies" into a paragraph) fail to help humans at different levels of understanding.
- She advocates for a return to "writing for people" in development workflows, ensuring that information delivery genuinely caters to human comprehension.
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