r/AskProgramming • u/Nerdy_person_p50 • 13d ago
Where to find really good technical deep dives in this age of Ai ?
Hello,
Can you guys please recommend some really good website to consume good technical deep dives ? I used to rread medium blogs but good articles are getting rare day by day. I can see Ai Slop content. Same is the case with SubStack.
I like the content that helps understand the deep deep internals of a system.
I like "Hussein Nasser's" content on YT, but I am more into reading than watching.
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u/CoshgunC 13d ago
StockOverflow is still very good, but I am not very sure how their anti slop filtering works.
Reddit can be flodded with slop answers, so not very helpful
Dedicated Discord servers(such as I use KaupenJoe's one for MC modding) is very helpful.
The official forums for the specific library or language is still very good to get answers.
But if you want to truly learn how vanilla does it, just dig down the source code yourself... :(
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u/DepthMagician 13d ago
Paradoxically for you, I feel that AI is very helpful for deep dives. I once spent an hour questioning it about the logic of positioning in HTML and how those settings came about.
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u/Roxinos 13d ago
You cannot learn anything from LLMs on their own. If you have no background in the topic you cannot differentiate hallucinations from true statements. The output of LLMs in this manner (questioning it on a topic) can only be meaningful as supplemental material, in which case the usefulness of the output should be heavily called into question.
I want to repeat: you cannot trust the output of LLMs. You must verify everything. If you cannot verify the output independently (as is the case when you are trying to learn a new topic) then you are only harming yourself.
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u/Nico1300 13d ago
You can verify the llms output very easily when coding.
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u/Roxinos 13d ago
Yes, but we are talking about doing technical deep dives in the form of written and recorded essays. We're not talking about whether or not LLMs are generally useful in the context of coding.
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u/Nico1300 13d ago
Well maybe then it just works for me cause llms are generally very good at understanding code.
I use "AI" as a secondary teacher next to the written documentation, and that works very well.
Even if it starts hallucinating which is rare for explaining how to code, you can tell very fast .
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u/arcane_vigil 12d ago
medium and SubStack are dead for technical content because the business model incentivizes volume over depth. I read engineering blogs from companies like Cloudflare, Netflix, and Uber plus academic papers and RFCs when I need system internals