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LLMs also train on official documentations which is where 90% of problems get solved.

In what world are you living in? That's maybe true in noob land. Literally all the problems I have are being solved in github issues, if at all. When has documentation been 90% sufficient for anything? In the 80s?

/e: sorry, sounds a bit stand off-ish.

Let me give an example: I was trying to find a way to clone a gorm query to keep the code clean. The documentation doesn't have anything (no, .Session isn't a solution) and the only place I had was issues discussing that. Apparently you can't. So I'll be ditching gorm and move to pgx in the near future. That's how it happens for me all the time. The documentation is lacking the hard part, always.

What will happen to official docs when it becomes clear that the only thing that reads them are llm-training runs?

The LLMs will read the actual source code which is way better than the documentation (as any iOS engineer will tell you). For private codebases the companies can provide custom-trained LLMs. Techniques like "Representation Engineering" will at some point also prevent against accidental leakage of private codebase source code.

Call it a win?

Won't you think of all the technical writers?!

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