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And that is why it is difficult to learn new things. I want to read documentation but then I have been programming for 45 years and am used to reasonable docum
by pasc1878 3y ago
And that is why it is difficult to learn new things.
I want to read documentation but then I have been programming for 45 years and am used to reasonable documentation.
If you are not experienced in language X the being told to look at its source code to see what and how it works is not good as the reason you are asking is because you don't yet understand X. Documentation has to be written assuming you don't know what is happening.
Even UNIX/Emacs documentation is frustrating as if you know Unix/Emacs than searching will give the information you need but if you have not user that port before then the documentation is opaque.
I suspect that documentation works when it is written by a separate team than the developers of the product and the documenters use the product.
- madsbuch 3y agoMy expectation is that a LLM can assist with exactly this. It would even be able to be lead by what you tell it that you know – and it can do it much more cheaply than humans.
- pasc1878 3y agoUnfortunately current LLMs also produce false code. Possibly because they do not have enough correct documentation to build models from.