Hacker News Reader

I have sat in so many meetings looking at shit generated by claude while someone grins and goons in front of it, and I just realise... 99.9% of people in corporate life neither care about the things they produce or present, or can tell a carefully created document from any old shit.

View on HN

A lot of internal presentations and documents are never looked at or read; they're basically used as proof of work.

I generally write them mostly for myself, so that I can understand what's going on and express my opinions well.

Like, I inherited a vibe-coded prototype recently, and writing about what the system does has been an invaluable tool in helping me (and others) understand the system.

And I think that nobody reading anything is much older than LLMs, it's just that LLMs have made it easier for people to produce longer, more irritating documents that nobody reads.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com