It took ~5 months for anyone to notice and fix something that is obviously wrong at a glance.
How many people saw that page, skimmed it, and thought “good enough”? That feels like a pretty honest reflection of the state of knowledge work right now. Everyone is running at a velocity where quality, craft and care are optional luxuries. Authors don’t have time to write properly, reviewers don’t have time to review properly, and readers don’t have time to read properly.
So we end up shipping documentation that nobody really reads and nobody really owns. The process says “published”, so it’s done.
AI didn’t create this, it just dramatically lowers the cost of producing text and images that look plausible enough to pass a quick skim. If anything it makes the underlying problem worse: more content, less attention, less understanding.
It was already possible to cargo-cult GitFlow by copying the diagram without reading the context. Now we’re cargo-culting diagrams that were generated without understanding in the first place.
If the reality is that we’re too busy to write, review, or read properly, what is the actual function of this documentation beyond being checkbox output?