People go to Stack Overflow because the docs and error messages are garbage. TLDR exists because the docs and error messages are garbage. People ask ChatGPT for help because the docs and error messages are garbage. We are going to lose a generation of competence and turn programming into call-and-response glyph-engine supplicancy because we let a personality cult that formed around the PDP-11 in the 1970s convince us that it was pure and good that docs and error messages are garbage.
@mhoye this. So very much this. The amount of programs with error messages like "an error occured" or just "error". And the amount of projects where you search for docs. And all you get is blogs on one very small use case (i.e. how to do NAT with nftables, good luck finding docs on anything else). Then some fucking numpty decides that they should name their tool with a dictionary word. Linux replaced brctl with bridge. Googling for help with bridge just gives brctl results.
