Fixing loads of LLM-generated content is neither easy nor fun. You'll have a very hard time getting people to do that.

Hardly.

- A huge number of developers will want to use such a tool. Many of them are already using AI in a "single player" experience mode.

- 80% of the answers will be correct when one-shot for questions of moderate difficulty.

- The long tail of "corrector" / "wiki gardening" / pedantic types fill fix the errors. Especially if you gamify it.

Just because someone doesn't like AI doesn't mean the majority share the same opinion. AI products are the fastest growing products in history. ChatGPT has over a billion MAUs. It's effectively won over all of humanity.

I'm not some vibe coder. I've been programming since the 90's, including on extremely critical multi-billion dollar daily transaction volume infra, yet I absolutely love AI. The models have lots of flaws and shortcomings, but they're incredibly useful and growing in capability and scope -- I'll stand up and serve as your counter example.

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fabian2k 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

People answer on SO because it's fun. Why should they spend their time fixing AI answers?

It's very tedious as the kind of mistakes LLMs make can be rather subtle and AI can generate a lot of text very fast. It's a sisyphean taks, I doubt enough people would do it.

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beepbooptheory 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I just think you could save a lot of money and energy doing all this but skipping the LLM part? Like what is supposed to be gained? The moment/act of actual generation of lines of code or ideas, whether human or not, is a much smaller piece of the pie relative to ongoing correction, curation, etc (like you indicate). Focusing on it and saying it intrinsically must/should come from the LLM mistakes the intrinsically ephemeral utility of the LLMs and the arguably eternal nature of the wiki at the same time. As sibling says, it turns it into work vs the healthy sharing of ideas.

The whole pitch here just feels like putting gold flakes on your pizza: expensive and would not be missed if it wasn't there.

Just to say, I'm maybe not as experienced and wise I guess but this definitely sounds terrible to me. But whatever floats your boat I guess!

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rob802 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Your points are arguing that the tool would be useful - not that anyone would build it. No one wants to curate what is, essentially, randomly generated text. What an absolute nightmare that would be

	▲	fragmede 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		> essentially, randomly generated text. You oversimplified and lost too much precision. Try again?