I've contributed 32 edits (1 new page) in the past 10 years, so despite being stable, there are still many things to add and fix!

Sadly, the edit volume will likely drop as LLMs are now the preferred source for technical Linux info/everything...

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bdavbdav 3 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

They may be preferred, but in a lot of cases they’re pretty terrible.

I had a bit of a heated debate with ChatGPT about the best way to restore a broken strange mdadm setup. It was very confidently wrong, and battled its point until I posted terminal output.

Sometimes I feel it’s learnt from the more belligerent side of OSS maintenance!

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resonious 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

At the same time, I suspect resources like the Arch Wiki are largely responsible for how good AI is at fixing this kind of stuff. So I'm hoping that somehow people realize this and can continue contributing good human-written content (in general).

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overfeed an hour ago | parent [-]

> So I'm hoping that somehow people realize this and can continue contributing good human-written content (in general).

AI walled-gardens break the feedback loop: authors seeing view-counts and seeing "[Solved] thank you!" messages helps morale.

	▲	bdavbdav a few seconds ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Absolutely. Even though I don’t use arch (btw), the wiki is still a fantastic configuration reference for many packages: systemd, acpi, sensors, networkmanager I’ve used it for fairly recently. You see it referenced everywhere as a fantastic documentation source. I’d love seeing that if I were a contributor
	▲	integralid 16 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Definitely, being unpaid LLM trainer for big corporations while nobody actually reads your work is not very encouraging. I wonder what the future will bring.

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fragmede 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Depends on how AI-pilled you are. I set Claude loose on my terminal and just have it fix shit for me. My python versions got all tuckered and it did it instead of me having to fuck around with that noise.

	▲	xhcuvuvyc an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not there yet. Not on my work system anyway. Seen too many batshit answers from chatgpt when I know the answer but don't remember the exact command.