Post AbooGD5EqlMCJpdty4 by djmitche@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AboJSLB6wNU0t45rnM by tante@tldr.nettime.org
       2023-11-14T22:03:38Z
       
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       Personally I believe if we put all the investment we currently burn on training statistics systems for code generation towards getting usable documentation and guides for using software packages everyone (professionals and learners) would be way better off.
       
 (DIR) Post #AboJi6AAXCFIx4APT6 by fabian@floss.social
       2023-11-14T22:05:23Z
       
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       @tante probably true
       
 (DIR) Post #AboKOLTC0wcwaUD5EG by flameeyes@mastodon.social
       2023-11-14T22:12:15Z
       
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       @tante if I could only redirect a tenth of the time spent by influencers looking for followers/engagement/growth hacks to teach _something_, whatever it is, to someone else, I feel the world would be a better place. But alas.
       
 (DIR) Post #AboixiWJFIIQXqfR0y by donaldball@triangletoot.party
       2023-11-15T02:49:37Z
       
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       @tante This is the song of my people.
       
 (DIR) Post #AbooGD5EqlMCJpdty4 by djmitche@mastodon.social
       2023-11-15T03:49:01Z
       
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       @tante it seems like the last 40 years or so have seen a combination of complaining about how expensive the right solution is at the same time as stupid amounts of money are poured into very wrong solutions.
       
 (DIR) Post #Abp3toHVytSSICj2em by datarama@hachyderm.io
       2023-11-15T06:43:34Z
       
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       @tante But this technology isn't really meant to make professionals and learners better off, is it? It's meant for owners to get rid of those professionalsI'm not convinced it *can*, but the billions of dollars being spent on LLMs are being spent for that express purpose. There isn't a billion-dollar industry in better autocomplete or lying chatbots, but there would certainly be one in mass-layoff-as-a-service.
       
 (DIR) Post #AbpRvOlYDScAdX45QG by gvwilson@mastodon.social
       2023-11-15T11:13:30Z
       
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       @tante we would have to train developers how to write useful documentation and tutorials, and as I've discovered repeatedly over 20+ years, no one will fund that.
       
 (DIR) Post #AbpdJ2ryNREhAiXySG by slott56@fosstodon.org
       2023-11-15T13:21:02Z
       
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       @tante true. It’s a much harder problem than the LLMs currently solve. It would require creating useful models of code and restating those models in natural language. It would involve actual “understanding” instead of word association tricks.