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by imposterr 481 days ago
This isn't an inherit issue with LLMs. You just need to set up some prompts that you can default to for different use cases. For example, you could set one up that is told to only provide the function arguments, and return value.
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I just enjoy reading the MDN articles or stackoverflow / reddit discussions, as well as official docs a lot.

I read documentation on my leisure time. Weird hobby of mine lol

> I read documentation on my leisure time.

There are dozens of us!

I'm in the right place then lol

most of the people around me spend their days doomscrolling on social media when they're free

That many?!?
Many times this helped me find a new/better way of doing something literally while looking up something else unrelated
> This isn't an inherit issue with LLMs

But it is. That’s why you, the user (or an enterprising LLM search tool) need to do things like

> set up some prompts that you can default to for different use cases

Personally, I’d rather look up first party sources than configure a tool to generate 3rd party information that’s not always correct.