Hello Clive.
Thanks for the update. Glad to hear you are up and
running.
On Sunday, 10 May, 2026, you wrote
> I thought it would be polite to come back with
> an update, especially as it is a positive one...
...
> so just shy of 90 minutes of back-and-forth to
> get it to work.
Interesting. I have been reading similar positive
feedback recently. It seems the LLMs have reached
a point of being generally useful on technical
subjects.
> What was interesting was that in the case of
> several parameter sections we actually went
> round in circles, with the model giving me dud
> advice that I had to go back and correct, and in
> some cases [quite a surprise] with me doing more
> than instructed and then seeing the model come
> back and "compliment me" for being a bit more
> precise...
I read an article a few weeks ago, written by a
proponent of using LLMs in development, who stated
that they amplify a Software Engineer's deviation
from the mean.
If you are an average programmer, the LLMs will
not help much. If you are a bad programmer, they
will feed you bug-ridden code and you will not
notice. However, if you are a good programmer then
they will take away the drudgery, leaving you more
time to concentrate on the heart of the problem.
I haven't touched them myself. I am concerned that
the copyright problem has not been resolved, so
I'm wary about shipping code that I'm not fully
responsible for.
> My sense is - and I asked the model, which sort
> of concurred - that a very significant part of
> the issue is that the documentation for Dovecot
> 2.4.x is absolutely awful
Unfortunately, this is common.
I have come to the conclusion that the worst
people to document a piece of software are its
developers. One holds far too many unconscious
assumptions to be able to explain its use to
others.
I highly respect the Technical Authors who can
take the obscure descriptions I throw at them, and
turn it into instructions that a complete novice
can follow.
Nick.
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Confidence is failing to understand the problem.
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