←back to thread

Beej's Guide to Git

(beej.us)
1062 points mixto | 1 comments | 05 Feb 25 00:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
Show context
rco8786 ◴[05 Feb 25 00:54 UTC] No.42941843[source]▶
I have nothing but fond memories of reading Beej's guides.

It's also this sort of work that's becoming less necessary with AI, for better or worse. This appears to be a crazy good guide, but I bet asking e.g. Claude to teach you about git (specific concepts or generate the whole guide outline and go wide on it) would be at least as good.

replies(5): >>42941937 #>>42941996 #>>42942409 #>>42942699 #>>42949624 #
1. namaria ◴[05 Feb 25 15:16 UTC] No.42949624[source]▶
I don't get this type of attitude. Surely using the source signal, before an LLM add noise would be much preferable. Besides, there seems to be heavily diminishing returns to de-noising LLM output, and even a hard barrier to how much we can denoise it. Yet people claim they prefer the noisy data and don't consider the risk that they are learning the noise instead of the signal because they have by definition no way of knowing what is signal and what is noise when they ask an LLM to teach them something. Because the noise is friendly sounding and on demand?

Wild.