2/ While I'm kinda sad to see my favourite tooling heading (slowly) towards the exit, I'm excited about the new and shiny, and very pleased to see new docs tooling being built by a team that's earned trust over a lot of years.

Oh damn. Thanks for sharing this, you've just articulated a thought I've been struggling to form. Also, really really sorry you went through that.

Nice idea!

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I should have said "if I want to write and publish an essay" - don't need to worry about attribution if the essay just sits in my google docs forever.

2/ So if the company buys a book, they can use it to train. But they'd be iffy as heck using it in their output, especially without attribution.
Problem is: if I write an essay, I can fairly easily keep track of my research materials and append a bibliography. It's less clear how AI can do this.

1/ As I understand it: yes for training, no for output.
Imagine I buy a book. I can then read it, annotate it, type up quotes from it for my own studies, write fanfic inspired by it etc. BUT if I want to write an essay and quote from it, I would need to correctly cite it at that point.

I'd been wondering about taking the CherryLeaf one.

Yeah AI search seems generally good.

For review - the former. I wouldn't rely on AI review either for style/clarity or factual accuracy - that's where you need the human to check the AI.

Which courses did you find where best? I'm currently learning in a slightly ad hoc way (although I am attending AI the Docs today and tomorrow)

And as you say, as a starting point for getting info sometimes.

I'm not using it heavily day to day. Where I find it effective (so far):

- AI powered search for docs sites
- As a reviewer to get an extra point of view (caveats/risks here though)
- For some types of refactoring work (saves a little time, but needs a lot of human input and review)

2/ The fun thing about being on both LinkedIn and Bluesky is I get to read the LinkedIn posts from companies pushing AI usage hard, and the Bluesky posts from people who've decided anyone who even touches AI is signalling complete incompetence.

Yup!

Perhaps also post-COVID derangement? I think everyone is still feeling the effects of the pandemic (while mostly acting like we're not), but it does seem to have been the point where a lot of people went weirder or more extreme.