alt Hacker NewsI am honestly asking and not trying to be a smartass:
What are the advantages of LLM summaries over man pages/google searches/stackoverflow threads?
I could maybe empathize if an engineer only had 30 seconds to understand a code snippet or a large shell command, but how often is that really the case? Is the time gained worth the risk of hallucination or incompleteness?
Or perhaps engineers are not the target audience?
I can provide a use case, although I don't use this site specifically, I do use LLMs (generally Claude) to get command line syntax fairly regularly.
The answer is it's faster and (in my experience) generally accurate for common command syntax. I don't remember all the params for a variety of commands but Claude can get them quickly and easily. Where (IME) LLMs fall down is for more obscure commands but then those are harder to find via traditional searches anyway :D
Googling is very hit or miss these days you end up with a load of sponsored results and then have to try and find an example with ideally the exact syntax you're looking for.