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RTFRA - A Humble Proposal [RFC]

by stgr_codes·May 19, 2026·1 point·1 comment
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●MidCozy

Funny rant about AI docs fatigue but offers zero technical substance.

Strengths
  • •Captures the genuine frustration of maintainers writing docs that AI ignores.
  • •Highlights the redundancy of creating separate AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md files.
Weaknesses
  • •No code, tool, or implementation provided to actually solve the stated problem.
  • •Satire without a constructive proposal adds noise rather than value to the discussion.
Category
Other
Target Audience

Frustrated open source maintainers

Post Description

You know that feeling when no one reads the documentation you wrote? I bet we've all experienced that moment when, after spending a lot of time crafting a README file, you realize nobody gives a fuck.

But how do you know nobody reads your Readme, I hear you ask?

Well, come on, remember when your colleague or manager asks for a call to quiz you on things you already carefully detailed in the docs?

And now? AI agents - which are basically LLMs trained on human data - expect you to have an `AGENTS.md` file. This is on top of the `README.md`, `CONTRIBUTING.md`, `STYLEGUIDE.md`, and `TESTING.md` files you've already written. It's happening all over again.

So "tu quoque," Claude? My friend Claude, you want me to create an `CLAUDE.md` file because you don't want to read my docs either...

This is why I propose we create an `AGENTS.md` file containing nothing but this:

RTFRA

(Read The Fucking Readme, Agent)

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