Write for people | ✰Vicki Boykis✰
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Something I’ve noticed recently is that I am no longer able to read and parse PR titles and descriptions across the internet. I don’t think I stopped being able to read or understand code, but now that we are automatically generating more and more explanatory artifacts instead of writing them, navigating codebases as a human is becoming an exercise in futility. I’m not the only one: We are already constantly drowning in tech jargon, much of which comes to us presented through breathless news headlines that make us feel bad for not knowing what the term was five seconds ago. Tokens are…
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