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Random Geek, 27 Jan 2026, 20:57:
All this is part of why I endorse public knowledge gardens. Take notes of the things you learn—even the things you learn from the chatbots. Share it in something more persistent than a microblog. Be tidy. Be sloppy. Be iterative. Just get it out there.
Sure it feeds the models, but they were gonna get fed anyways. What's more important is it feeds the public. (Also, feeding the public with food is also good) Keep putting stuff out there for whoever comes after you.
And use RSS.
Christine Lemmer-Webber @cwebber@social.coop 27 Jan 2026, 09:33:
This blogpost makes an astoundingly good case about LLMs I hadn't considered before. The collapse of public forums (like Stack Overflow) for programming answers coincides directly with the rise of programmers asking for answers from chatbots *directly*. Those debugging sessions become part of a training set that now *only private LLM corporations have access to*. This is something that "open models" seemingly can't easily fight.
This is very true. Don't worry about being tidy, or feeding the scrapers. But just record your knowledge and share it. Don't lock it up in the private corporate gardens.
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