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by delusional 468 days ago
> Also, it strikes me how often people would rather ask a question on something trivial rather than read the docs or at least Google the question.

This is in my opinion one of the easiest pitfalls of modern enterprise software development. Too often I catch myself asking people questions that I could quite easily find the answer to myself. This both devalues documentation, since it won't be used anyway, and wastes the time of the people I ask.

One of my greatest points of self improvement has been to catch myself and look at the documentation first. Then if I really can't figure ot out. Turn the question into a question that can be answered by improving the documentation.

I'm nowhere near perfect at it, in a moment of weakness I still ask questions I shouldn't have asked, but I'm proud of how often I stop myself.

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Yeah, the problem with in house frameworks and other such custom code that I face is that the people who wrote it are long gone, the documentation is scattered and many times out of date of the actual code and the code itself is kinda convoluted with little to no comments explaining it. I feel like if LLM's are properly trained on company code and the in house documentation data then this could be a big boon, so that instead of having to search for documents on company cloud drives and chat threads etc, you can just ask the chat AI and it will surface the relevant data to you faster than you could find it yourself.