Comment by intrasight
12 hours ago
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?
I have used LLMs for safety sensitive tech writing and so have people I know. It’s pretty good at it, and you usually have a 95% ready to go product at the end of it. The last 5% can pretty easily be filled in by technical experts with way less time spent battling the type writer.
Is it perfect? No. But it suffices most of the time in a pinch.
Can’t speak to the nuke industry, but it’s pretty good at aviation related things.
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