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[-] 8uurg@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

It is concise, contains true information,

In my experience that is not necessarily guaranteed, documentation is sometimes not updated and the information may be outdated or may even be missing entirely.

Documentation is much more reliable, yes, but not necessarily always true or complete, sadly enough.

[-] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

Sure, and I've also had my share of cursing at poor documentation.

If that's the case then your AI is also going to struggle to give you usable information though.

[-] 8uurg@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

My point was solely that human written documentation is far from as reliable as your comment insinuated it to be. Compared to an LLM it is reliable, but it is far from perfect.

In my view, an (my?) AI is going to struggle, whether or not the documentation is in order: those models already get confused by different versions of the same library having different interfaces and functions.

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