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Which was trained on a pre-AI internet. What's going to happen in coming years when new tech comes out but perhaps isn't documented the same way anymore? It's not an unsolvable problem, but we could see unintended consequences like, say where you must pay the AI provider to ingest your data. Similar to buying poll space or AdSense or whatever they call it for search engines

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If you release a new piece of technology from 2025 onwards and don't invest a decent amount of effort into producing LLM-friendly documentation (with good examples) that a user can slurp into their coding agent you're doing your new technology a disservice.

I thought this was always true? What’s new about documentation being important?

If your technology has competition that's already in the training data, the only way to make it equally accessible to LLM users is to ensure there is concise, available documentation that can be fed directly into those LLMs.

That's why "copy page" buttons are increasingly showing on manual pages eg. https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/get-started

If LLMs get more popular, fewer people will actually "browse the web" which could reduce the need for it to be published. At the least, fewer people will ask stack overflow questions for the LLM to learn from. So there could be an island of knowledge where LLMs excel at topics that had mass volume published before AI, and be much less useful for new tech developed after.

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