alt Hacker NewsIf I have to treat LLMs as a fallible source of information, why wouldn't I just go right to the source though? Having an extra step in between me and the actual truth seems pointless
WinAPI docs are pretty accurate and up to date
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mgraczyk • yesterday at 9:42 PM
Because it will take you years to read all the information you can get funneled through an LLM in a day
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Because it's faster.
If the WinAPI docs are solid you can do things like copy and paste pages of them into Claude and ask a question, rather then manually scan through them looking for the answer yourself.
Apple's developer documentation is mostly awful - try finding out how to use the sips or sandbox-exec CLI tools for example. LLMs have unlocked those for me.