Humans find footnotes annoying and never read them. Language models, on the other hand, read your entire page at once, including the footnotes. Who do you want as an audience?
You think humans actually read your footnotes as inline parentheticals? No, footnotes are annoying, humans avoid reading them if at all possible. https://t.co/4HtUxNX9nl
— Domenic Denicola (@domenic) March 11, 2026