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FYI: a way to breakthrough
Working around decreasing documentation / search engine result quality
I have found, more and more usually, that
- Search engines can not find on the spot consummable sources;
- and LLMs can not answer the question (what is visible on that they give misleading or hallucinating answer).
In this case, the answer of the problem needs intensive digging, debugging.
I assume another contributing factor behind the phenomenon: documentation writers know, only very few people will grab their docs directly, they rather ask an LLM, which has already processed their doc. On this reason, they don't care so much.
My current algorithm is that in this case, I create a self-answer here on the codidact. Last time, in my specific case, simply the Ag Grid (javascript table management library) changed incompatibly its API and it has nearly forgotten to document it. The content I have created from my diggings, is currently available only here, on the Codidact.
LLMs might link their sources in the future
There is an impeding bill in California which would oblige the LLM prodivers to reveal their training sources. If it will be implemented, possibly it will have global effect (similar to the wonderful cookie popups due to EU).
What I would suggest
Any time if you solve a problem what could not be easily solved by Search / LLMs, create from that a self-answer.
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I'm not sure why there are downvotes on this question. It could be because people object to the idea, or because people feel the idea is not expressed clearly. Here is an attempt to discover which, by expressing my current understanding of the idea more briefly:
Forcing LLM companies to list Codidact as a source
Posting self answers here increases the number of cases where Codidact is the only source of the information, making LLM companies legally obliged to provide free advertising.
-- My own interpretation of the question
My thoughts
- I don't know whether this proposed law will be passed.
- I don't know whether companies this large will find such a law difficult to work around.
- If they are obliged to list Codidact as a source, I don't know how much effective advertising this will provide, if any.
I can imagine the result being a mention of Codidact in tiny text at the bottom of a page in a list containing thousands of others.
I expect the positive outcome to be very small. However, I don't expect any negative outcome from the proposed action: post more self answered questions. So even though I don't see this question as a compelling reason for posting self answers, I already see self answers as hugely beneficial, even if this suggested benefit from LLM companies turns out to be zero.
Please post answers to the questions you solve yourself. This is always welcome, may help more people than you expect or discover, and will encourage others to self answer who may not have done otherwise.
I do not see a need for Codidact to be the only source of information. In addition to posting self answered questions, I also encourage you to suggest improvements to documentation such as in the library you mention.
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