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ozim ◴[09 Apr 25 07:52 UTC] No.43629839[source]▶

Reading documentation - if you are junior take time to go one level deeper to understand / fix issues you have. Then read also stuff adjacent to that.

By trying to read some documentation like a book from cover to cover will be waste of time.

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bluetomcat ◴[09 Apr 25 08:38 UTC] No.43630090[source]▶

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Absolutely. LLMs offer you compressed documentation at your fingertips. Instead of scrolling through man pages and function references to find that specific flag or parameter you are interested in for the problem at hand, you can directly formulate such a question to the LLM, and it will give you a pretty good result.

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1. iroddis ◴[09 Apr 25 10:49 UTC] No.43630743[source]▶

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I think the GP was proposing an organic way to expand knowledge. Reading adjacent documentation expands your knowledge of what’s possible. An LLM will tell you how to do a specific thing, but you need to know such a thing is possible before you can effectively ask about it.

In this way, LLMs may passively discourage discovery by providing immediate, specific answers. Sometimes there is value in the journey.

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