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by is_true 876 days ago
SO is one of the examples where there isn't that much bloat, usually the longest answers are more detailed and let you learn, instead of just copy pasting (potentially) working code.

In the web Google is in part responsible for adding more content, they always suggested longer articles because it helped the algo get a better context. But for us humans it mostly doesn't make sense.

The same happens with books but I think we are at fault too, I would think twice about a book that is 80 pages, but the truth is that 80 pages could be a lot for most topics. I believe that the summarization capabilities of LLMs are gonna make a generation feel different about short content.