Quoting Armin Ronacher
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Improve issue reporting by focusing on observed problems and avoiding AI-generated noise, as emphasized by Armin Ronacher
Action Steps
- Read issue reports carefully to identify key information
- Ask submitters to provide exact error or log messages
- Encourage submitters to report issues in their own voice, without AI-generated rewording
- Use a standard format for issue reports, such as the one suggested by Armin Ronacher: 1) I ran this command, 2) I expected this to happen, 3) This happened instead, 4) Here is the exact error or log
- Test and verify issue reports to ensure they are accurate and complete
Who Needs to Know This
Developers and project maintainers can benefit from clear and concise issue reports to efficiently resolve problems and improve their projects
Key Insight
💡 Clear and concise issue reports are crucial for efficient problem resolution and project improvement
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Key Takeaways
Improve issue reporting by focusing on observed problems and avoiding AI-generated noise, as emphasized by Armin Ronacher
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Title: A quote from Armin Ronacher
URL Source: https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/24/armin-ronacher/
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24th May 2026
> The most frustrating failure mode right now is that people submit issues that are not in their own voice. They contain an observed problem somewhere, but it has been thrown into a clanker and the clanker reworded it and made a huge mess of it. Typically, it was prompted so badly that the conclusions produced are more often than not inaccurate but always full of confidence. The result is complete guesswork on root causes, fake-minimal repros, suggested implementation strategies, analogies to adjacent but often the wrong code, and long lists of error classes that might or might not matter. [...]
>
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> So at least personally, I increasingly want issue reports to be condensed to what the human actually observed:
>
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> 1. I ran this command.
> 2. I expected this to happen.
> 3. This happened instead.
> 4. Here is the exact error or log.
— [Armin Ronacher](https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/5/24/pi-oss/), on slop issues filed against [Pi](https://pi.dev/)
Posted [24th May 2026](https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/24/) at 6:46 pm
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Markdown Content:
# [Simon Willison’s Weblog](https://simonwillison.net/)
[Subscribe](https://simonwillison.net/about/#subscribe)
**Sponsored by:** Depot — AI agents write code in seconds. CI shouldn't make them wait minutes. [Try Depot CI](https://10xn.link/simon-depot)
24th May 2026
> The most frustrating failure mode right now is that people submit issues that are not in their own voice. They contain an observed problem somewhere, but it has been thrown into a clanker and the clanker reworded it and made a huge mess of it. Typically, it was prompted so badly that the conclusions produced are more often than not inaccurate but always full of confidence. The result is complete guesswork on root causes, fake-minimal repros, suggested implementation strategies, analogies to adjacent but often the wrong code, and long lists of error classes that might or might not matter. [...]
>
>
> So at least personally, I increasingly want issue reports to be condensed to what the human actually observed:
>
>
> 1. I ran this command.
> 2. I expected this to happen.
> 3. This happened instead.
> 4. Here is the exact error or log.
— [Armin Ronacher](https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/5/24/pi-oss/), on slop issues filed against [Pi](https://pi.dev/)
Posted [24th May 2026](https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/24/) at 6:46 pm
## Recent articles
* [Have your agent record video demos of its work with shot-scraper video](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/30/shot-scraper-video/) - 30th June 2026
* [Porting the Moebius 0.2B image inpainting model to run in the browser with Claude Code](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/22/porting-moebius/) - 22nd June 2026
* [sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 adds migrations and nested transactions](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/21/sqlite-utils-40rc1/) - 21st June 2026
This is a **quotation** collected by Simon Willison, posted on [24th May 2026](https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/24/).
[armin-ronacher 23](https://simonwillison.net/tags/armin-ronacher/)[open-source 308](https://simonwillison.net/tags/open-source/)[ai 2,095](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai/)[generative-ai 1,852](https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai/)[llms 1,820](https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms/)[slop 40](https://simonwillison.net/tags/slop/)[ai-ethics 320](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-ethics/)[github-issues 15](https://simonwillison.net/tags/github-issues/)[coding-agents 214](https://simonwillison.net/tags/coding-agents/)[pi 4](https://simonwillison.net/tags/pi/)
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