Comment by PsylentKnight
10 hours ago
> It's long been the case that the best way to learn something is to teach something
Which is pretty unfortunate for those that want to learn. I used to enjoy writing documentation at work, it was my favorite part of the job. And it did feel like it benefited me more than it benefited all the people that were (or weren't) reading my documentation. Now I can't really justify spending much time on docmentation when LLM's can do it in a fraction of the time and it's "good enough"
I got started as a software engineer working in the nuclear industry in the 80s. We measured our documentation in inches not pages, and it was all written by hand. And I'll bet you the documentation in the nuclear industry is still written by hand and not by LLMs.
I sure hope those docs aren’t written by LLMs for many reasons!
i wonder if people who use llm's for business critical documentation would have the same opinion, and if so why?
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There is still value in experts distilling knowledge and crafting it to the audience. I'm a consultant in cybersecurity and someone asked me "give me a best practice framework for good policy hygiene". I'm sure an LLM could spit out some tips, but I've been on the industry 15 years and can write in 5 pages what an LLM wouldn't conceive of in that space.