(The program has makefile; "make; sudo make install")
ChatGPT's responses can be summarized as "I have no idea how to install that, but here is this similarly-named, completely unrelated project and its installation instructions".
Uh, that's nice, thanks for sharing.
This seems like foreshadowing; users are now going to show up at your door armed with lengthy AI chat transcripts, whose failures are somehow your fault. "If you had better documentation, AI would have found it, scraped it and helped me, instead of bullshitting in circles."
A lot of our professional norms contradict this. I get unnecessarily long emails every day, I sift through byzantine project structures as a profession, and I attend meetings that could have been an email -- all from people more senior than me.
If there's a message in what I'm saying, it's to question everything, especially in writing. If it makes more sense than what you're doing, write short emails, write short blog posts, write nothing at all.
I agree there's lots of 'puff', even hysteria, etc, around AI, but there really is a 'there' there, IMHO, and just the volume of new, often quite astounding, applications shows that.
I don't think the strategy is to be _more_ annoying than AI evangelists. That blog was painful to read.
