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bad_username • today at 12:41 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

That's nice, but I think most ripgrep users today will just ask ChatGPT rather than read the docs.

The still-standing use case for AI-generated human-facing docs is to help humans build mental models, and to give them a bird's eye view of what's possible with a technology, a semantic map of sorts. But reference info - that is probably not one of the use cases any more.