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Oct 8, 2026

Is a README for Humans or for LLMs?

I stopped reading my own README at the tenth sentence. I split it: the visible body for humans, the facts for LLMs folded into a <details> at the end. Then I built a public canary repository to check whether AI assistants read folded contents. All five that could fetch the URL did. It is still a way of separating humans and LLMs.

Oct 8, 202616 min read0 reactions0 comments