theletterf

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Excited and exhausted: life as a tech writer in the AI age(elizabethtai.com)
2 points by theletterf 2mo ago|0 comments
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Does whispering to agents in docs help?(passo.uno)
28 points by theletterf 2mo ago|9 comments
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by theletterf 2mo ago
I wonder if ads will be sort of elegant and contextual, like product placement in screenplays. "I've completed the analysis. One moment... _Takes a sip of Evian_ Ahhh. Now where were we? Ah yes. Here are the results:"
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by theletterf 2mo ago
I wonder if these models, left running in an air-gapped environment, would end up developing honeypots for the first human to log in.
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by theletterf 2mo ago
There's a certain etiquette to it. When someone asks me something and I use an LLM to research the answer (notice that I said 'research', not 'produce'), I frame the findings as something that I've investigated
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The Seven-Action Documentation Model(passo.uno)
1 points by theletterf 2mo ago|0 comments
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Docs in 2026: Feed the machine, then guide the humans(passo.uno)
2 points by theletterf 2mo ago|0 comments
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Advice for tech writers on a job hunt in the AI age(passo.uno)
4 points by theletterf 2mo ago|0 comments
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by theletterf 3mo ago
This is fantastic, but I so hoped it would come with an infographic of NY's underworld, slice of cake style. I recall seeing one somewhere, but my attempts at finding it again all failed.
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You can write docs in LLMese, but you don't have to(passo.uno)
2 points by theletterf 3mo ago|0 comments
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Cockpit Color Guide(cybermodeler.com)
1 points by theletterf 3mo ago|0 comments
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Will AI replace technical writers?(willaireplacetechnicalwriters.com)
3 points by theletterf 4mo ago|1 comments
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Guadagnino's Sam Altman movie dropped by Amazon after partnership with OpenAI(theguardian.com)
6 points by theletterf 4mo ago|0 comments
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Mekton (1995), mech first-person game from SGI ahead of time(neogaf.com)
2 points by theletterf 4mo ago|0 comments
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Feed the machines, then guide the humans(passo.uno)
1 points by theletterf 4mo ago|0 comments
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by theletterf 4mo ago
The Windows 3.1 theme of my blog says Hi: https://passo.uno/win31/fine-tuning-docs-llm/
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by theletterf 4mo ago
Ha! I didn't know the origin was Shannon. It makes sense now. Big fan of my namesake Bellard. :]
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by theletterf 4mo ago
Try Runpod or similar services: you can fine-tune stuff for the price of a latte. Stanford's NLP course recommends them: https://cs336.stanford.edu/
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by theletterf 4mo ago
I concur. Old docs are the good stuff: https://passo.uno/why-collect-read-old-computer-manuals/
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by theletterf 4mo ago
Interesting! I think the advantage of style fine-tuning is that you might not have to provides that much context upfront. Also, it's kind of magical to have an LLM just do something out of the box. I'll compare my local fine-tuned
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by theletterf 4mo ago
Had to pick a year, and most of the material hovers around the mid-90s, the golden age of MS docs. And 1995 is THE Microsoft year. :)
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by theletterf 4mo ago
Author here. Sorry, should have made that more visible!
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by theletterf 4mo ago
Author here. Another trick, I would argue, is consistency, hence the focus on style. I also wrote on what I think makes docs beautiful, by the way! https://passo.uno/what-makes-docs-beautiful/
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Fine-tuning an LLM to write docs like it's 1995(passo.uno)
2 points by theletterf 4mo ago|0 comments
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Claude Code hook that plays a random sound on negative feedback(github.com)
2 points by theletterf 5mo ago|1 comments
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by theletterf 5mo ago
I sometimes long for audio feedback when interacting with Claude, so I've made a Claude Code hook that makes Claude reply to negative feedback with sounds from a folder. You can use any sound you want.
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Volcano Radio(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by theletterf 5mo ago|0 comments
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by theletterf 5mo ago
Thanks! That makes sense. This was just genuine curiosity on how HN works, I couldn't care less about kharma.
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by theletterf 5mo ago
@dang Is this item getting a lot of negative votes? I've no way of knowing, other than seeing my kharma increasing only slightly after all the points the story collected.
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by theletterf 5mo ago
For a moment I pictured the Jesuits training their own LLM. If Arthur C. Clarke was still alive, we'd read a story like The Star, but with AI as the main plot device. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_%28Clark

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