Why LLM-Written Docs Fail: Models Optimize for Punchiness, Not Readability
mervenoyann · x · 2026-11-04
Dev Merve argues LLMs write terrible documentation because they optimize for punchy phrasing rather than readability. Even prompting with the AST-STE100 simplified English standard doesn't fix it. She suspects agents reading the docs get tripped up by coreferences — and since they mostly read the code anyway, the docs add little value.
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