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AuthAuth 2 days ago

>from the perspective of people that just wanted information — a lot of the time the information you were trying to gather was buried in stuff that focused too much on the personal, on the context and storytelling, when that wasn't wanted, or wasn't quite what you were looking for and so you had to read several sources and synthesize them together.

When looking for information its critically important to have the story and the context included along side the information. The context is what makes a technical blog post more reliable than an old fourm post. When an AI looks at both and takes the answer the ai user no longer knows where that answer came from and therefore cant make an informed decision on how to interpret the information.

logicprog 2 days ago | parent [-]

That's a fair point. But it can cite that original context in case the human user decides they need it, which might be the best of both worlds? I'm not sure. Also, long form posts may be more useful in certain cases than forum posts, but technical forums didn't pop up out of nowhere, people created and went to them precisely because they were useful even when blog posts already exist, so there's clearly a space for both. There's overlap, for sure, though.