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"All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. …

I think the example you give is a little backwards — a RAG system searches for relevant content before sending anything to the LLM, and includes any content retrieved this way in t…

See one, do one, teach one.

Is llms.txt really useless? I've read some recent articles claiming that if you tell an agent where to find it in an HTML comment at the top of your page, the agent will do so and …

Really slick. Let’s see the AI open it up so we can use it to generate a similar map for anyplace on Earth :)

This question generated some very interesting discussions in another online community I’m in. I would likely pursue a career in occupational therapy or speech-language pathology. I…

It’s good to spread awareness (or just remind folks) that alternatives to Markdown exist. The right tool for the job depends on your circumstances. If I were scaling a docset for a…

This really depends on where you first encountered the term. Anne Gentle wrote Docs Like Code, the first book I read on this topic 8 years ago. I always consider the terms "docs as…

Thanks for sharing this post from Michelle, just shared it with some leaders at my company!

You're not wrong. Business is a tough environment. At a gut level the post seems sensible to me, and it does generate a lot of ideas about how I can make my own docs better. That's…

Thanks for sharing. A couple of thoughts. It seems like it's a lot harder to measure whether your docs are helping people make good decisions than it is to measure whether they are…

Aren’t we all just offset normies?

Someone is out there building and maintaining the APIs

To be clear, I don’t mean when you’re cold-emailing someone for an intro or a favor you don’t need. I mean when you have a dependency at work and can’t move forward without informa…

Agree with the premise, and it can be more effective to choose a different medium for your follow-up communication. Someone not responding to email? Try sending an IM or giving the…

If I were the manager, I’d respond to this by wishing the person luck and asking when their last day will be.