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ryanchantstoday at 2:28 PM1 replyview on HN

I always say that AWS docs are exhaustive, but exhausting. Mostly because they're spread across half a dozen places. The answer you need is normally in there somewhere, but good luck finding it. And when I remember the docs contain some fact I want re-reference, I can never find it again.


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colechristensentoday at 3:53 PM

Most of my interactions with AWS docs end up being pretty useless, as in they are information-free. Like describing how to fill out a form and press next in a wizard which boil down to "fill out the Name field with a name and press next" and every once in a while there will be a tiny amount of information but most of it is useless and usually the information you're looking for isn't there.

Nobody using AWS needs to be told "in order to add a hoozit, press the add hoozit button, fill out field A then fill out field B then fill out field C and then press next"

Now there's an interesting idea, have an LLM crawl their entire docs and cull everything obvious or content free and compile what's left