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20kyesterday at 11:06 PM1 replyview on HN

I mean, is it really that hard to find information in the docs?

Like, if I want to find out what, I don't know, "GetQueuedCompletionStatus" does. I google

GetQueuedCompletionStatus

Find this page:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/ioapiset...

Bam, that's the single source of truth right there. Microsoft's docs are pretty great

If I use an LLM, I have to ask it for the documentation about "GetQueuedCompletionStatus". Then I have to double check its output, because LLMs hallaucinate

Doubly checking its output involves googling "GetQueuedCompletionStatus", finding this page:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/ioapiset...

And then reading the docs to validate whether or not what its told me is correct. How does this save me any time?


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mgraczykyesterday at 11:12 PM

How about we do the following.

I have not done win32 programming in 12 years. Maybe you've done it more recently. I'll use an LLM and you look up things manually. We can see, who can build a win32 admin UI that shows a realtime view of every open file by process with sorting, filtering and search on both the files and process/command names.

I estimate this will take me 5 minutes Would you like to race?

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