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>>moored+(OP)
This stuff smells like maybe the bitter lesson isn't fully appreciated.

You might as well just write instructions in English in any old format, as long as it's comprehensible. Exactly as you'd do for human readers! Nothing has really changed about what constitutes good documentation. (Edit to add: my parochialism is showing there, it doesn't have to be English)

Is any of this standardization really needed? Who does it benefit, except the people who enjoy writing specs and establishing standards like this? If it really is a productivity win, it ought to be possible to run a comparison study and prove it. Even then, it might not be worthwhile in the longer run.

>>iainme+Qb
I'd argue we jumped that shark since the shift in focus to post training. Labs focus on getting good at specific formats and tasks. The generalization argument was ceded (not in the long term but in the short term) to the need to produce immediate value.

Now if a format dominates it will be post trained for and then it is in fact better.