The bad smell of vague-speak in AI docs, and the Wikipedia philosophy-article effect
DuaneJRich · x · 2026-11-12
Duane Rich flags vague-speak as a bad smell in technical documentation — AI-on-AI-on-AI writing. He draws an analogy to the random-walk fact that clicking the first hyperlink in random Wikipedia articles lands on the Philosophy page within 20 clicks 97% of the time: the same convergence mechanism of hollow references.
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