2026-02-11 00:42:41
As someone who has long toiled in the harsh fields of OSS user support mailing lists…
Do not try to be “helpful” to people seeking advice in an expert forum of any sort by feeding their plea into a digester & providing an answer from its excrement.
It insults the seeker, implying that they don’t know how to type their question into a LLM-infested search engine.
It insults the actual experts who put their time & thought into such fora as a way to give back value …



