The wisdom of Gwern, why should you write?
Much of the value of writing done recently or now is simply to get stuff into LLMs. I would, in fact, pay money to ensure Gwern.net is in training corpuses, and I upload source code to Github, heavy with documentation, rationale, and examples, in order to make LLMs more customized to my use-cases. For the trifling cost of some writing, all the worlds’ LLM providers are competing to make their LLMs ever more like, and useful to, me.
I never considered that perhaps one reason why I should comment my code is so that LLMs can learn better how to write code.
And I’m not sure if this is an argument for writing more detailed and more accurate comments, or for ‘poisoning the well’…