i just went to the first MDN page in my address bar history, which is for the grid property, and hit "AI Explain" on the first code block i saw, which is the overview of property syntax
the code block starts like this:
/* <'grid-template'> values */
grid: none;
grid: "a" 100px "b" 1fr;
grid: [linename1] "a" 100px [linename2];
and the explanation starts like this:
The given code example demonstrates various values and combinations that can be used with the
gridproperty in CSS.The first set of examples shows different values for the
gridproperty. Each value represents a different grid template. Here are the explanations for each example:
grid: none;: This value sets the grid to have no explicit grid template.
grid: "a" 100px "b" 1fr;: This value sets the grid template to have two rows and two columns. The first row has a height of 100 pixels and the second row has a height of 1 fraction unit (1fr). The columns are named "a" and "b".
NOPE. critically but subtly wrong! this creates a grid with two rows with heights 100px and 1fr, one column, and two areas named "a" and "b". (and as smaller quibbles: rows and columns do not have names at all in css grid; only areas and lines do. and calling "fr" a "fraction unit" is kind of weird.)
it continues in this vein and misunderstands the syntax several more times, but then gets a few of them right as well, and all written in the same objective tone.
i mean i knew this is how it works but it really fucking sucks to see in action. and of course it's the more subtle stuff, the stuff that people are more likely to click the explain button on, that will come out wrong.
i just hate this man. i hate that everyone is falling all over themselves to make a button that produces confident human-like text that's completely fucking wrong. as if no one cares if it's wrong, no one even cares to point out that it's often wrong, everyone is just delighted that it produces something. what the fuck are we doing? what the hell is wrong with this industry?
edit: THEY CALL IT "YOUR TRUSTED COMPANION"
Isn't it harder to implement AI* than to just answer these questions manually?
*Or whatever the thing actually is that they're calling AI
Not at present! Writing quality documentation costs money and time but dickriding VC funded dumb bullshit is "free"
what's especially appalling here is that they could have generated all the text in the world and then committed it to the repository so humans could edit it
but they didn't! it's like it didn't even occur to anyone involved in this process that the output might be incorrect. how the fuck did this happen
Easy.
None of the people involved in the choice to implement this have ever even seen a html source of a website, nor do they care to.
Just do the thing I told you to do, underling, my buddy Brock Jr. III said it'd be great over mimosas.
