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Microsoft refuses a documentation fix because AI might not understand text in tables (pivot-to-ai.com)
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[–] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 6 points 9 hours ago

It's even worse when you add the next few words:

I've learned today that you are sensitive to ensuring human readability over any concerns in regard to AI consumption

The machine readable docs is the docstrings (or XML Documentation Comments or whatev), and the code itself. LLMs have completely melted these people's brains.