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This is so meta. Here we are trying to verbalize our tacit knowledge of "tacit knowledge" :)

While I agree with the distinction you made (Last paragraph is excellent), there is this grey area : Because in the digital era almost everything is recorded (oral meetings/written chitchat...), there is a huge quantity of information that is neither in the "Guts" nor in the "docs". To join others in this thread, I guess LLMs will play a big part in making this grey area usefull and in a certain way bridge the gap (partially) between what is tacit and what is formally documented.

Exactly. However I think its a bit more complicated than a grey area. There is just no hard distinction between tacit and explicit knowledge, even though the distinction is useful.

It is not that any tacit bit of knowledge eludes articulation, it is the whole that is problematic. Nothing is truly undocumentable, but its like the specs for microsoft word: its just so much you already need to be an expert to navigate the whole of it.

Thats the distinction and LLM of course of very good at processing vast amounts of bits and pieces.