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My docs will include tutorial links at the top, and those tutorials will focus on accomplishing common tasks.

I believe that's a good jumping off point.

You can’t realistically cover every use case. With an LLM you can say something like “Make me a program that sets up an SDL window with the title ABCD that has a 396x224 RGB565 framebuffer and moves around a red square using the WASD keys by using a loop to fill in pixels in that framebuffer and then quits when it reaches the right edge of the screen” and it has a reasonable chance of making something that works or at least is easy to adjust into something that does. Just because sometimes it might not work the first time isn’t a good reason to try to stop people from using it entirely

I would bet good money that, as a use case becomes more niche, an LLM's output becomes more wrong. If that's true, your assertion would be wrong.

It does become more wrong, yes, but blocking it isn’t going to help it get any better. The idea that everything an LLM does can be replaced by documentation isn’t true

> The idea that everything an LLM does can be replaced by documentation isn’t true

An LLM is false value, so I'm not worried about that.

How is it false? I’d say an LLM is like the output you’d get if you forced someone to write something with a strict time limit and without being allowed to go back and edit things or look anything up - likely to be wrong about anything that needs deep thought, but not entirely useless for simple things that are just tedious like boilerplate code

I can promise you your tutorials will offer far fewer jumping-off points than an LLM.

I can promise you that my fewer tutorials will be correct, not incorrect. An incorrect jumping off point is worse than none at all.

> An incorrect jumping off point is worse than none at all.

incorrect.

How so?

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