While I agree keep Readme a for humans, Readme literally means read me. Not 'this is a separate project'. Not 'project documentation file'. You can have read

While I agree keep Readme a for humans, Readme literally means read me. Not 'this is a separate project'. Not 'project documentation file'. You can have read mes dotted all over a project if that's necessary. It's simply a file that a previous developer is asking you to read before you start making around in that directory.