Comment by valenterry
10 months ago
They are also useful for association. Imagine an LLM trained on documentation. Then you can retrieve info associated with your question.
This can go beyond just specific documentation but also include things like "common knowledge" which is what the other poster meant when they talked about "teaching you things".
In my experience, if the information I need is in the documentation, then I don't need the LLM. If it is not in the documentation, then the LLM will invent stuff that could be there but that isn't, and it's actually a loss of time.
> In my experience, if the information I need is in the documentation, then I don't need the LLM
need is a strong word. Do you need to be able to do ctrl+F? Not really, you can just read it all. But maybe it's easier to do ctrl+F. Same with LLM. Just imagine it as a fuzzy ctrl+F. Can be useful.
The thing is, being able to read documentation is a skill.
Being really good at ctrl+F / LLM is not the same. I learn a lot just browsing through documentation, without searching anything in particular.
Fuzzy isn't what I want to be when referring documentation. So much documentation is incomplete to begin with.
That's the big issue with LLMs as of now; They reflect their American creators and never want to admit when they just can't answer a question. CTRL+F will in fact give me 0 results, which is more useful than a wrong result.
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