Comment by actuallyalys
16 days ago
> At this point, most tech writing shops are serving llms.txt files and LLM-optimized Markdown
I find this hard to believe. I‘m not sure I’ve ever seen llms.txt in the wild and in general I don’t think most tech writing shops are that much on the cutting edge.
I have seen more companies add options to search their docs via some sort of AI, but I doubt that’s a majority yet.
At this point I can't tell if all these blog posts hyping LLMs are themselves written by LLMs, and thus hallucinating alleged productivity boosts and "next-generation development practices" that are nowhere to actually be found in reality.
Shame, because it's a bunch of nice looking words - but it doesn't matter if they're completely false.
In this case, it appears to be just that the author didn't properly qualify the sentence (see their reply to my comment).
But certainly it does seem like a potential risk of LLMs that they will synthesize people's notes and early marketing materials into "experience reports" that describe benefits and uses that never actually happened. Potentially these could then become part of training data or future contexts via search for other people writing, further exacerbating the effect. We already see similar phenomenon with human errors getting magnified via word-of-mouth.
Nope, I didn't use an LLM. Disclaimer is in the footer. :)
No, not a majority yet. Forgot to add "bleeding edge" :)
Okay, gotcha. Thanks for clearing that up!
Im not sure why any publisher would go out of their way to make it easier for an LLM tor read their site. If it were possible id block them entirely