What Vicki Boykis thinks about documentation
Machine learning engineer working on recommender systems, personalization and information retrieval; author of the 'What are embeddings?' text.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Vicki Boykis has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsBut where it starts to get dicey is when you have both jargon and long text explanations being generated by machines, for people at different levels of understanding.
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Their wordsThe output is the result of a model trained on the entire corpus of technical internet documentation with the training objective being completing a sentence but not with the objective of human understanding.