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throwaway173738today at 2:23 AM2 repliesview on HN

I can’t count the number of times the docs have been totally wrong.


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h6d_100ctoday at 7:12 AM

And they were actually like that pre-LLM, in 2019, when I was implementing stuff for a car company on azure. They spent _hundreds of thousands_ on cosmosDB, for less performance than a raspberry pi running Postgres.

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GCUMstlyHarmlstoday at 5:55 AM

Pretty surprised to hear this. I would think (assuming they are LLM written as parent suggests), that MS could throw a large context "pro" LLM at the code base and you should get perfect docs, updated every release?

More perfect than a person where I might mistakenly copy/paste or write "Returns 404" but the LLM can probably see actually return a 401.

I'm not a stranger to LLMs hallucinating things in responses but I'd always assumed that disappeared when you actually pointed it at the source vs some nebulous collection of "knowledge" in a general LLM.

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