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I had the same thought a while ago. My personal conclusion was - there is a place for well-written books that bring the reader along a step by step process to u
by reacharavindh 3y ago
I had the same thought a while ago. My personal conclusion was - there is a place for well-written books that bring the reader along a step by step process to understand a topic and impart knowledge such that they can make their own opinions from then on. Example - Designing Data Intensive Applications, Effectice C++ etc from my personal collection.
There are other books to the tune of “Docker Cookbook” “Java Pocket reference” etc, that will lose their relevance when LLMs could do that job of digesting existing info into easily usable form.
- karmasimida 3y agoI am with you on this one. But I think many tech books carrying some of flavor of being a manual, especially those centered around some particular library/framework, thinking of 'XX in Action' series. Ones that talk about more abstract ideas, like on the art of developing/testing software, will continue to thrive. However, I think the bread and butter for the tech publishing industry are those manual books, which follow a relative mature format of writing, and are produced in bulk each year. If they are going away, this might speak trouble for the whole industry. But that is just my hypothesis for now, I hope the industry find a way to sustain itself.