Proprietary vs open source models
Proprietary vs open source models
Posted May 26, 2026 15:23 UTC (Tue) by kleptog (subscriber, #1183)In reply to: Proprietary vs open source models by csamuel
Parent article: Reviewing kernel patches with LLMs
To some extent I can understand this. Writing documentation is also a process that requires feedback. You write documentation, you want to know from users whether this helped them or not, you improve it. But the feedback process for documentation is not easy to arrange and slow.
If you write the documentation for an LLM you can get direct feedback as to whether it understands it or not, whether important things are missing. This makes it way more interesting to write. I'm not sure we could have done it earlier.
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