I was imagining a feature that allowed me to search across all my books, which is something that O’Reilly Learning does (actually it gives you answers from their entire range since their model is a license to access all content).

Come to think of it, given how early O’Reilly had this it’s shocking to me that Amazon hasn’t done this sooner.

The O’Reilly Learning search was simultaneously the best and worst of all the early LLM applications. They have tons of high quality content that underpins very useful answers. I’ve also found a bunch of worthwhile books by looking through the sources.

It’s the worst because their template response is extremely unimaginative. I can be asking process questions about managing tech debt and it still gives me a code sample with every response as though I was asking “how do I add this button to my app”.