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When I read the badly-written documentation (manuals, datasheets, etc.) of a lot of Chinese products like calipers, stepper motors, and ICs, I often say to myself that I could fix the language easily for a small fee and make their products more appealing when the actual product itself works pretty well.

I wish there was a simple way to monetize this by offering such improvements to companies without a race-to-the-bottom market place. Perhaps companies offering bounties for such suggestions for improvements?

I always think the same thing, but then I think actually it's just whatever-bias: the ones that have got it figured out I'm not thinking about it or don't even realise they're similar companies.

And some you do realise but are pretty legit now, like Anker. Vevor is on its way perhaps.

But yes, it does often seem pretty nuts; even a font change would go a long way in many cases. They always use the same ancient computer-has-one-font (we didn't buy the other floppy) looking thing.

This work is going to go to LLM’s. If you’re not proficient in English, all you have to do is run your poorly-written paragraphs through an LLM to get passable professional paragraphs. For documentation that’s a no-brainer.

I like the idea of RapidAPI but I would like to know if there are any serious/large projects which have chosen to be dependent on them.

Is API as a service still valid in the age of AI?

AI needs to get its data somewhere, it can't know the current weather without ... drumroll ... an API to query from.

What does that even mean? I'm certainly not living in a world where AI has replaced the need to build APIs.

Simply: what?

What is AI going to solve that API as a Service currently does?

Generate an API with an AI? Perhaps..

Maintain that API and make sure its scalable etc? I dont think AI is currently going to do that for you.

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