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Comment by yhcj | Hacker News Reader

I still use google. LLMs talk way too much for what I need.

Granted, my searches are usually "toLocaleString() format" or "floor tiles popping reddit" and such. That takes me to MDN, stackoverflow, reddit etc.

I recently paid for Kagi since I like their mission but I'm more used to the results from google. I'll see where it takes me.

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This isn't an inherit issue with LLMs. You just need to set up some prompts that you can default to for different use cases. For example, you could set one up that is told to only provide the function arguments, and return value.

I just enjoy reading the MDN articles or stackoverflow / reddit discussions, as well as official docs a lot.

I read documentation on my leisure time. Weird hobby of mine lol

> I read documentation on my leisure time.

There are dozens of us!

That many?!?

I'm in the right place then lol

most of the people around me spend their days doomscrolling on social media when they're free

Many times this helped me find a new/better way of doing something literally while looking up something else unrelated

> This isn't an inherit issue with LLMs

But it is. That’s why you, the user (or an enterprising LLM search tool) need to do things like

> set up some prompts that you can default to for different use cases

Personally, I’d rather look up first party sources than configure a tool to generate 3rd party information that’s not always correct.

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