Awesome, so the readme is rendered completely untrustworthy and useless. May as well not have it at all 👍
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Wouldn't the readme be the easiest part as the dev would need to know the ins, outs and quirks of his own project?
of course the dev would know that, so would cursor or antigravity
when you use AI to inflate a readme from a prompt, ppl will use AI to summarize the readme back to something like the prompt. so why not just cut out the middleman.
That's not what you're supposed to do. AI is easy to use, but it's also easy to use it in dumb ways. I generate the readme once all the code is done.
The README should be the first thing you write, not the last.
If you follow a “docs driven development” approach then you use the README (and other docs) to guide the design of the project, and wind up with something that is categorically more usable as a result.
That makes the README both the most important step and the earliest because it lays the foundation for the project.
That also means you can’t use AI to write it because it’s starting from a clean slate.
You also shouldn’t use it because that’s the part that is the most important thing to carefully think through.
If you follow a “docs driven development” approach
ummmm why would i do that
Sorry, memes good to me but my downvoted will always be for drake
:( what did drake ever do to you?
Ask not what Drake has done to you, but what Drake has done to others, lol
Edit: note I did not downvote you for inquiring, that was someone else