New ask Hacker News story: Companies Need to Offer Current Documentation in a Single Document for LLMs
Companies Need to Offer Current Documentation in a Single Document for LLMs
6 by EcommerceFlow | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Just an FYI to anyone working at some type of tech company, as LLms become increasingly integrated, the issue with outdated / fragmented documentation will continue to be a hindrance. We need companies to offer all documentation in a single download so we can include it within our LLM prompts. No matter how "smart" an LLM is, if its training is based on outdated documentation, good chance the program simply doesn't work. I'm a non-coder and learned this the hard way. Even with o1-pro-mode, I kept getting errors juggling a program that involved the Clerk and Shopify API. I decided to mass gather and paste huge amounts of both documentation into the LLM and it solved all my issues in a single shot. Shopify was especially difficult, as they release fairly large API updates every 3 months. For Shopify alone, I had to copy around 90 pages worth of documentation. It's obviously possible to manually do all this, but it's about accessibility. Or maybe some third party service starts scraping and saving this info? Anyways, I hope this becomes standard pretty soon. Hell, maybe have a page similar to robots.txt for LLMs to ping in the future for the most modern documentation for them to use.
6 by EcommerceFlow | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Just an FYI to anyone working at some type of tech company, as LLms become increasingly integrated, the issue with outdated / fragmented documentation will continue to be a hindrance. We need companies to offer all documentation in a single download so we can include it within our LLM prompts. No matter how "smart" an LLM is, if its training is based on outdated documentation, good chance the program simply doesn't work. I'm a non-coder and learned this the hard way. Even with o1-pro-mode, I kept getting errors juggling a program that involved the Clerk and Shopify API. I decided to mass gather and paste huge amounts of both documentation into the LLM and it solved all my issues in a single shot. Shopify was especially difficult, as they release fairly large API updates every 3 months. For Shopify alone, I had to copy around 90 pages worth of documentation. It's obviously possible to manually do all this, but it's about accessibility. Or maybe some third party service starts scraping and saving this info? Anyways, I hope this becomes standard pretty soon. Hell, maybe have a page similar to robots.txt for LLMs to ping in the future for the most modern documentation for them to use.
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