Kyle Kingsbury says LLM use is eroding trust in software and documentation
What happened
On November 2, Simon Willison reported on comments from Jepsen author Kyle Kingsbury in the ParticleDB 1.1.4 test results. Kingsbury says LLM use is eroding trust in documentation, software and the organizations that produce them, because signals once used to judge a system's maturity are now easier to fake. He argues maintainers need to make software correct and documentation accurate, and prove that quality to users.
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- Simon WillisonQuoting Kyle Kingsbury
Jepsen 作者 Kyle Kingsbury 在 ParticleDB 1.1.4 测试结果中指出，LLM 的使用正在侵蚀人们对文档、软件及产出这些的组织信任，过去用来判断系统成熟的信号如今更容易被伪造。他提出维护者需要确保软件正确、文档准确，并向用户证明其质量。
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